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- From: mendels1@husc4.harvard.edu (Andrew Mendelsohn)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: OS/2's Future
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.142034.15159@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 18:20:33 GMT
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- I thought some of the readers might be interested in Lee Reiswig's
- talk at the Windows and OS/2 Conference in Boston last week.
- He discussed the future of OS/2 as IBM sees it. Please excuse any
- misinterpretations I may have made in the following summary.
- He stated that IBM's strategy for the desktop and workstation OS's is
- 3-fold: 1) Dos on the low-end, 2) OS/2 in the middle, and 3)AIX on
- the high end.
- OS/2 will be split into 2 products, one the current desktop product
- will continue to be enhanced (Win 3.1, 32 bit GRE, improvements to
- the WPS and improvements to memory utilization so that systems
- with 4 MB RAM will really work, Pen and Multimedia extensions,
- etc.) A second OS/2 for servers and powerful workstations is being
- built that will be portable, run under a microkernal (MACH?), and be
- seamlessly integrated with AIX (AIX will be another subsytem under
- the microkernel) so that users may use both OS/2 and UNIX
- programs from the same desktop.
-
- The future of WPS is that it will be introduced in some form into DOS
- and into AIX (probably in the OS/2-AIX portable form) in order to
- unify the user interface. The WPS will be continually expanded in
- capacity so that it will provide a painless transition to the Taligent OS
- interface when it becomes available for those who are interested in
- migrating to the new platform. IBM intends Taligent to be able to
- run PM programs to protect users investments.
-
- Interesting echoes of MS strategy with WIN NT and CAIRO, except
- that OS/2 substitutes for Windows and CAIRO is not currently
- projected to be added to DOS (at least the rumors I read a while
- back).
- andy mendelsohn
-