#: 12359 S1/General Interest
    21-Sep-91  11:22:06
Sb: #12293-#OS/2
Fm: Jim Peasley 72726,1153
To: Art Doyle 71565,262 (X)

Art;

  Saw your note on OS/2.  Assuming you're talking about the V.2.0 release
(which is in Beta test and due to be released RSN), yep they've managed to get
almost all the 'bugs' out and make it much more robust.   I've seen video of
demonstrations put on by the 'blue Ninja' (an IBM VP) that blow most people's
socks off... kinda ho-hum for us OS-9 types tho, as we've been doing this stuff
for years on a $200 machine!
  The interface is very like Windows 3.0, but at this point not quite as
snazzy.  Windows and DOS apps run unmodified in the DOS box(es) and programs
written for the 32 bit processor *really* fly!  Looks like this may become the
next 'standard' and finally replace DOS.  Time will tell. The BIG difference in
this version is that the developers have been using conferencing and a large
base of beta testers to get the final release 'just right' -- something
radically different for Big Blue.
  For more info, go IBMOS2 and check out the forum.

..Jim



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