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- From: ergo@netcom.com (Isaac Rabinovitch)
- Subject: Re: Windows 4.0
- Message-ID: <7zant!l.ergo@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 19:08:40 GMT
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- References: <92234.123756ACPS0974@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> <5100@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <1992Aug24.203710.18899@hubcap.clemson.edu> <TGUEZ.92Aug24191948@jade.tufts.edu>
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- In <TGUEZ.92Aug24191948@jade.tufts.edu> tguez@jade.tufts.edu (Name) writes:
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- >You know, last night I read this FAQ file about OS2 and it said
- >something like this, "...Microsoft halted all OS2 development and
- >started the high end WindowsNT....[much later it said something like
- >this].... WindowsNT (formerly OS/2 Ver 3.0)...." Don't you think this
- >is great? It sure answers plenty of mysterious OS/2 compatibility
- >questions.
-
- Not necesarily. NT is a completely new OS. It *might* have good
- backward compatibility (that's certainly an avowed design goal), but
- what a product is or was called has nothing to do with this, as any
- Chevy Nova owner can tell you! Indeed, it's my understanding that IBM
- rejected MS's plans for OS/2 3.0 precisely because of compatibility
- concerns.
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- ergo@netcom.com Isaac Rabinovitch
- {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!ergo Santa Cruz, CA
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- You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
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