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- From: ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Andrew T. Robinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: os/2 win3.1 support
- Message-ID: <92246.204112ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 00:41:12 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.1480.26264@dosgate>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: University of Maine System
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- From: roger.ramsey@canrem.com (roger ramsey)
- >SW>Don't forget WinOS/2 also runs Windows 2.x apps as well, which MS
- >SW>doesn't run.
- >
- >You have a point to this statement? Anyone out there running Windows 2.x
- >apps should be roundly told to get with the program or get out of it.
- >
- The point is that backward compatibility is important, and you can't
- continue to throw over an established customer base (as MS is going
- to do to Windows users with NT). Actually, MS seems to think they
- *can* continue to do it, but I find it to be bad business. I am doing
- my part by discouraging my clients from using MS products.
-
- >SW>Sounds like a better Windows than Windows, to me.
- >
- >But juggling so many API versions will it be a better Windows with the
- >performance of say, a snail running uphill through snowdrifts?
- >
- Even when OS/2 was at level 1.1, it was a better Windows than
- Windows. Windows won not because it was better, but because it
- was a slicker package (kind of like the approach Bill Clinton is
- using.)
-
- In any event, the tacit and erroneous assumption is that supporting
- more APIs saps performance. It may take up more disk space and more
- memory (what doesn't nowadays?), bu there is no reason why supporting
- multiple APIs means a performance hit.
-
- >SW>Also, the CSD will be shipping "real soon now"..........:-)
- >
- >ROTFL!!!! (mostly derisive). This must be the longest "soon" in history,
- >considering they first "demoed" the so-called "3.1 support" in April.
- >
- Kind of like the "soon" for the release of Windows NT. That's a lame
- slam, since software schedules have been slipping since the beginning
- of programming history. I am glad IBM is taking more time and hopefully
- fixing more bugs.
-
- > ~ WinQwk 2.0 a#473 ~ IBM - Intimidated By Microsoft
- >
- Now *that's* funny. Considering the stuff I'm hearing from
- Microsoft reps at conferences, I'd say it was MS that's running
- running scared.
-
- Andy
-