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Subject:Re: Win 95 From:Matt Ion <mion -at- NEXTLEVEL -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 29 Aug 1995 10:28:19 PDT
On Mon, 28 Aug 1995 14:18:39 -0400 you wrote:
>Except that IBM has as much as admitted that OS/2 is dead.
When? Where? They have never even alluded to such a thing. The popular press
loves to take every little thing Lou Gerstner says and interpret it to mean
OS/s is dead.
>They are also giving up their license to incorporate Windows. That means
>that your choice of software will shrink.
How so? Are a bunch of existing Win3.1 and DOS apps going to simply disappear?
>I wouldn't go to Windows 95 yet either, though we have had a lot people doing
>beta testing at work, and it words very well. I'll wait until January. We'll
>know for sure by then if there are any problems....
I can tell you right now that there are plenty of problems :)
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