(Excerpts from a message dated 10-01-99, Sean Dennis to Coridon Henshaw
Original topic: It's over. Period.)

Hi Sean--

SD>Besides, all of those computers you mentioned are based on old
  >chips.  OS/2 is based on the x86 set... as long as there's a x86
  >system around, it will run OS/2.

    I wish that people who try to quote history in this echo knew what
they were talking about :-(.  No version of OS/2 would run on an 8086 or
80186 (practically nothing ran on the short-lived 80186).  Only OS/2
versions 1.x would run on an 80286, but not on any earlier x86.  OS/2
versions 2.x and 3.0 would run on an 80386, but not on any earlier x86.
Warp 4 and later require (as a minimum) an 80486.

    In spite of your topic heading, OS/2 most certainly is not "over."
The thing that the doomsayers really are saying (although many of them
obviously don't know it!) is that they (the SOHO users) have been left
out of IBM's future plans for OS/2.  They are correct!!  OS/2 was
originally designed as an "industrial strength" operating system for
large commercial users.  After the Warp 3 AIHU marketing debacle, IBM
has slowly returned OS/2 to the originally intended customer set.  You
and I can continue to use OS/2 as for long as we wish, because nothing
prevents us from doing so--especially if we aren't too enamored of using
the latest available hardware.  IBM will continue to update OS/2, at
least through mid-2001 according to recent IBM announcements.  However,
those new updates will come at a price, since the low-cost ride has been
over for some time.  If you don't believe this, check the catalog prices
of recent IBM "native OS/2" application software.

    Regards,

        --Murray

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