[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] OS for the 90's

woody@nntp-server.caltech.edu (William Edward Woody) (06/27/91)

>>>There will be no other operating system for the 90s other
>>>than DOS (at least for the first half!).  
>>
>>I beg to differ, John.  Unix is going to be a major player in the 
>>Operating System game of the 90's.  I'm actually surprised at how long
>
>Very true. However, Borland is working with IBM to develop an OS/2
>32-bit compiler for version 2.0

Actually, who cares what the operating system for the 90's is, so long
as the API are similar enough so that I can take my application of the
90's and get it to work on them.

Of course 32-bit flat addressing would certainly help; my biggest bugaboo
is working with Windows 3.0 or DOS; I don't like _near pointers verses
_far pointers; it makes live very painful (especially with C++)...

					-- Bill

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