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In <42o4b1$b...@stratus.skypoint.com>, syd...@skypoint.com (Scott Butler) writes:

>"Close to all", huh? "Most" DOS apps? You're being mighty vague.

    Sounds like you're talking about Windows95 there.  800 DOS programs out of
a test group of 2500 that Microsoft itself picked had problems running in
Win95.

>to hardware. Windows 95 runs a vast majority of existing DOS apps, as 
>well as Win16 apps. 

    And does so in a manner that is begging for a system crash and invites
viruses.  Also, when it runs Win16 apps it turns into a glorified version of
Windows 3.x.

>Listen, OS/2 is not a bad OS - but there's NO WAY you can claim it has
>ANYWHERE NEAR the applications support that Windows 95 has. 

    Sure we can.

OS/2 - DOS & OS/2 & Windows
Win 95 - DOS & Windows


>Currently you still haven't pulled any solid numbers out to support your 
>claims. 

    Solid numbers?  OS/2 apps have topped 1 million recently.

>If you want informal support for my claim that Windows 95/NT has more
>applications support, go to your local software retailer and count how
>many Windows & Windows 95 apps are on the shelf, and then count the OS/2
>apps. Do the math.

    OK, I will do the math.  Last conservative figures place OS/2 installs at
over 6 million, most of those one or another flavor of WARP.  By the end of
this year at the latest OS/2 will be installed on more computers than there
are Macintoshes.

    Conservative figures place OS/2 apps at over a million with more and more
on the way.

    As for your informal poll, it fails in one prospect.  OS/2 software is not
on the shelves not because it isn't there, or because it doesn't sell, but
because most OS/2 users order direct from the company or through a
distributor.

    To show how your arguement fails, it is like claiming about a year and a
half ago that Doom wasn't the hottest game around because Id didn't have any
software on the shelves at the stores.

>OK, genius - what YEAR was that quote from? You can pull quotes from that 
>time period from just about ANYBODY in the business and make 'em look 
>like idiots. Maybe we should go back and try to dig up some similar 
>quotes from some IBM execs? 

"640k is should be enough for anybody" -- Bill Gates, 1981
"OS/2 is the operating system of the 90s" -- Bill Gates, 1989

The next one in line:

"Win95 is the greatest OS to come out for the Intel microprocessor"
                                                    -- Bill Gates, 1995

  Just a meager 4 years after OS/2 2.0 came out and could do everything Win95
does.

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