scalawag@milton.u.washington.edu (Keith Frederick) (06/27/91)
In today's Wall Street Journal IBM had an advertisement for OS/2 v1.3 SE (being a DOS/Windows person I don't know what SE is, anyone know?) for only $150 ($99 if you own IBM DOS) AND MORE IMPORTANTLY a free upgrade to OS/2 v2.0 when it is released (if before next year). Apparently, this new OS/2 will run Windows software and DOS and OS/2 apps all at once. This is all exactly what I would like so I can move to OS/2 easily. HOWEVER, I wonder just really when is it expected that OS/2 v2.0 will be released. Does anyone have a good educated guess? IBM is supposedly showing OS/2 v2.0 at PC EXPO (June 25-27 [that's today! ]. Has anyone heard anything from there about the current state of this exciting new upgrade. Thanks in advance. ________________________________________________________________________ | | | | Keith R. Frederick | Happiness is our moral purpose. | | (206)285-1576 | If you see Dr. Fu Manchu, Kill Him! | | scalawag@milton.u.washington.edu | SOF : For Professional Adventurers | | scalawag@max.u.washington.edu |-------------------------------------| | CIS: 73760,3521 | ::: 4th Year Senior / Economics ::: | |__________________________________|_____________________________________|
wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) (06/27/91)
scalawag@milton.u.washington.edu (Keith Frederick) writes: >HOWEVER, I wonder just really when is it expected that >OS/2 v2.0 will be released. Does anyone have a good educated guess? Official date is sometime in 4th quarter of 1991. >IBM is supposedly showing OS/2 v2.0 at PC EXPO (June 25-27 [that's today! >]. Has anyone heard anything from there about the current state of this >exciting new upgrade. I saw a summary of the OS/2 2.0 demo, and apparantly the demo floored most people who were there. It was *very* impressive. The upgrade is nothing more than what you read in the advertisement. BTW, "SE" stands for "Standard Edition"; there's also the "EE" == "Extended Edition". The EE comes with a *really* fancy Communications program, a *really* fancy database package, and I believe also a LAN client package to be used with the (sold separately) LAN Server package.