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rjva...@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Rob Vanden Heuvel) wrote:

<pc week comments re: win95 & the p6 deleted>

>   After hearing this, it seems to me as though nobody in their right mind would
>"upgrade" to Windows 95.  So the alternatives are NT and OS/2.  Seeing as NT
>isn't really viable for the home user (unless you have a massively powerful
>system) and has such compatibility problems, OS/2 is the clear choice of the
>future.  Besides, a failure of Windows 95 (which is actually looking quite
>possible if people get informed in time) would mean that Microsoft would be
>dead in the water in the OS arena.  The OS/2 market will boom if people have
>any sense!

Do you really think that the P6 is going to sell that well right out
of the gate?  There are still a ton of 486 machines out there, and a
rapidly growing number of pentiums.  The only people who will buy the
P6 when it comes out will be those who feel the need to be 'on the
cutting edge' at any cost.  How long was it before the Pentium gained
a solid foothold in the PC industry?  It didn't happen overnight.

I'd suspect that many early purchasers of the P6 will be people who
are already running OS/2 or NT.  I couldn't care less how a P6 runs
ANYTHING, as I won't be purcashing one until at least 1997 or later,
by which time Windows 95 and OS/2 Warp will both have been replaced
(in theory) by newer versions...

-Steve

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