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- From: rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Win3.1 support *better* than MS!
- Message-ID: <rhoward.715005460@matd>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 12:37:40 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.044505.2361@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute
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- tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen) writes:
-
- >Steve Withers writes:
-
- >> At an IBM OS/2 seminar this evening, one of the presenters told us that the
- >> news in IBM's internal forums today was that the Win3.1 support in the CSD is
- >> going to also include support for those Win3.x programs that will not run
- >> under Win3.1.......
-
- >You know, every once in a while, I'd really like to find out exactly why it
- >is that one company is able to do something that another company can't. This
- >is a case in point. If IBM is able to make OS/2 run Windows 3.0 applications
- >that Windows 3.1 can't run, why or how are they able to do it?
-
- It's simple. Microsoft had a self-imposed deadline to ship Windows 3.1.
- That deadline was to ship *in volume* before OS/2 (GA) hit the streets
- (in its piddly volumes). Had they waited even another month to fix those
- problems they could have easily lost significant market share. Just
- think of all those PC rags with nothing to report on but OS/2....
-
- Robert
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