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- From: HK.MLR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark Rogowsky)
- Subject: Re: First Taligent Won't Run Existing Apps
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.061316.19543@morrow.stanford.edu>
- Sender: news@morrow.stanford.edu (News Service)
- Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 06:13:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.014443.1@vax1.umkc.edu>,
- tmaehl@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
- >
- >
- >
- >So what's this say for the future or Taligent?? Will they be
- >doomed if they don't ship Mac-AIX-OS/2 modules before 1996??
- >Thats four years from now...roughly three after NT ships...
- >or is Taligent's uniqueness going to be a strength that puts
- >it in a new class and so does not need to compete with
- >Microssoft el al??
- >
- Unfortunately, it's very bad news for Taligent. I am as much a
- Microsoft-hater as the next guy and don't think NT is really going
- to offer much of anything to regular users.
-
- But it will be adopted at sites as early as first quarter of 1993.
- If Taligent:OS/2 and Taligent:System 7 don't ship until 1996 the NT
- installed base will be pushing eight figures at that time. I thought
- that when Microsoft admitted some DOS software wouldn't run under NT
- they'd be in trouble. Taligent not running anything at all? Ugh!
-
- The flip side problem is that many potential Windows users are still
- using DOS. They're not ready to bother and, besides, plenty of hot
- new software is DOS based (e.g. Intuit's super-easy accounting
- package QuickBooks).
-
- Similarly, many, many Mac users are going to have System 7.x or 8.x
- or whatever in 1995. It's going to have true preemptive multitasking
- (whatever that means), multithreading, OCE, QuickDraw GX, QuickTime
- 2.x or 3.x, etc. etc. Better still, it's going to run at Warp Factor
- 9 on a Power PC based on the 604 chip.
-
- Why switch will be the question on everyone's lips/minds. Taligent
- may well be the best operating system ever produced for micros (as a
- matter of fact, I suspect it will). But if it doesn't run MacOS and
- OS/2 at first and then only runs them under emulation (a
- possibility?) and therefore slows them down, it's trouble for
- Taligent.
-
- Meanwhile, while you can order an NT beta for $70 from Microsoft and
- they can tell you exactly what it does and then show you, Taligent
- can't/won't announce what the product will do yet, nor what it will
- look like.
-
- Taligent's only hope of market penetration falls into two
- categories:
-
- 1) They lay out the details including a timetable and accelerate the
- OS/2, System 7.x functionality (w/o performance penalty) to the
- original intro date.
-
- 2) Apple and IBM, which could still control one-third of the
- hardware market in the mid-90s, bundle the sucker with their
- machines and force feed it into acceptance. Then, as with OS/2, if
- it's good enough, it will make it.
-
- I could go on all day, but instead I'll let good ol' Larry
- Rosenstein (who I have respect it), fire back a volley.
-
- Mark Rogowsky
- rogo@forsythe.stanford.edu
-