ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) (09/27/90)
(On a long thread connected with OS/2) In case you haven't heard the news yet, OS/2 is dead. Microsoft is "putting all it's wood behind one arrow" (to borrow a phrase from Scott McNeally) and putting everything into Windows 3.1, 4, 5... Expect two windows releases for every Intel microprocessor! IBM is going to extend OS/2 on intel hardware (Why!!!!????). Microsoft plans to eventually redo OS/2 in C in a architecture independent way, so as to keep it's foot in the OS door. Considering it took 3 years for 'em to get a barely acceptable OS/2 v2 running, I'm not holding my breath. I think 2 years more is too much time given competition from NeXT (especially NeXTStep) and SPARC-MIPS Unix boxes. IBM has started offering NeXTSTEP as an option on PS/2.. interesting world, ain't it?? >Did you hear the joke about the scientist whose wife had twins? > - He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Good one! -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Ajay Shah, (213)734-3930, ajayshah@usc.edu The more things change, the more they stay insane. _______________________________________________________________________________