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kspe...@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Kevin Speichts) wrote:
>In article <ttw7vg6Z...@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> khc...@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Oliver Chung) writes:

>>With MS, you basically upgrade as frequent as they wish or be
>>left "in the dust (desert, artic whatever fits your adjective
>>list)".  IBM is still supporting OS/2 v2.0, v2.1 as of now.

>Explain why their newest product NT 3.X has always supported OS/2 1.x 
>text apps.!   

Because that's the user base MS want to convert to NT.   From
what I gathered (from .advocacy groups, believe at your own
risk), before NT, the MS sold a lot of network stuffs based on
OS/2 1.x (the one co-developed by MS and IBM, before the split).

Many MS corporate clients (those haven't switched to IBM's OS/2
2.x) are still using them when NT was released (what else do they
have from MS?).  And NT's OS/2 1.x text apps support are for
them, not for the average Joe user who are using OS/2 1.x.

Also, supporting old stuff with the newer version is different
from supporting the old version.  MS supporting NT 3.x which
supports OS/2 1.x is different from MS supporting OS/2 1.x. 
Because in the former case, you better upgrade; in the latter,
you don't have to.

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Oliver Chung
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