>>they became the desktop home and office user system. Nobody else stepped up
>>to the plate, so the market picked Microsoft. DOS was never meant to take
There was OS/2 also, but IBM never did know what to do with PC stuff. :-)
Still don't -really- for that matter.
And of course dear ol' MS had a lot to do with the original development of
OS/2 and by the time IBM took it over 100% and managed to get all the MS out
of it, it was too late.
The fact that IBM never figured out it should be easy for non-programmers
to set up didn't help either.
IMHO ;-) OS/2 is/was a MUCH better OS than Windoze could ever hope to be.
Though nowhere near perfect of course. :-)
Ed in NC
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