Yeah I forgot about poor old OS/2. I had a friend who tried to get Warp 4
to install on his machine for about a month. He finally gave up and went
back to Windows. And he was a programmer too! Of course, his favorite
language was GW Basic... I tried Linux for awhile, but gave up because it
didn't like any of my hardware. I hear it's better now though.
IBM did to OS/2 what DEC did to the Alpha chip. There's nothing like bad
planning. They both must have used the same marketing company or something.
The college I went to migrated from a VAX cluster to a single processor
Alpha chip and the system was faster. :-) But DEC never marketed it
properly.
adrian
-----Original Message-----
From conan at ralvm8.vnet.ibm.com [mailto:conan@ralvm8.vnet.ibm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 7:40 PM
To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: more info on virus (ABSOLUTELY NO LBC)
>>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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