Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 13:18:12 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: dwilde1@ibm.netTh Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Demo CDs (was: blessing) Message-ID: <3548DC84.DB249E5F@san.rr.com> References: <17537.893491629@time.cdrom.com> <3541F04D.474FE994@ibm.net> <19980429145242.02565@papillon.lemis.com> <3547F0F1.280A76EA@ibm.net>
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Don Wilde wrote: > OS/2 tried to be more windows than windows, > and we saw what that got them. It got them a better windows than windows. OS/2's failure is entirely due to the fact that they can't market their way out of a paper bag. As an example, the Windows 3.1 emulation in OS/2 runs more windows applications than Windows 95 does (based on microsoft's own data on apps that do and don't run in Win95). The problems IBM has/had/is having regarding porting a Win32 environment to OS/2 are entirely related to microsoft constantly changing the API so that IBM can't keep up, and introducing subtle changes that they know won't work with OS/2. That was the entire purpose behind the win32s update to 1.30. IBM was successful in porting win32 1.25 so IBM introduced a call in 1.30 that OS/2 can't use (I don't remember the details of what it was, but it was well documented at the time). My point is that technical superiority is never a bad thing. But it won't help you one bit if you don't have the marketing to go with it. That, and the fact that I'd kill for a good windows emulator that runs on FreeBSD. :-/ Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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