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Day of reckoning looms for desktop OS winner; Microsoft, IBM/Apple racing toward 32-bit goal, as...

By Leghart, Paul M.
Publication: Software Magazine
Date: Friday, November 15 1991

The desktop and server operating system market has been confused recently by a number of new products, postponed products and vendor alliances. IBM and Microsoft now support competing 32-bit desktop operating systems; Microsoft has abandoned OS/2 in favor of Windows New Technology (NT) and a 32-bit Windows on DOS. IBM will try to bring new life to OS/2 with version 2.0, and the company has entered into an alliance with Apple Computer Inc to develop the Pink object-oriented operating system. Novell is joining with Digital Research to integrate client and server software in its NetWare networ

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