Yes, Gates led IBM along; his chief concern was to distract them while gaining market share for Windows. i remember a press conference in Paris in 1993 for the Windows NT launch where he said he expected IBM to break apart into pieces.
It was the DOS OEM licensing that made Gates rich. Sean On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Brian Butterworth <[email protected]> wrote: > OS/2 PM was a trick Microsoft played on IBM, wasn't it? > Windows v3.0 was cooperative multitasking, not pre-emptive which was why > people said it was a "DOS application" and they were quite right. > It was the first point that made Gates rich, not the second. > > 2010/1/29 Sean DALY <[email protected]> >> >> I remember in 1992 when an engineer friend sniffed that Windows (v3) >> wasn't a proper operating system, just a DOS application, and DOS was >> a pig, and OS/2 was a serious OS. >> >> Bill Gates laughed all the way to the bank. >> >> Sean >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Brian Butterworth >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Underwhelming. It's a big iPhone. It's named after the Star Trek PADD. >> > Might be good it if ran an operating system and had a keyboard. >> > >> > 2010/1/27 Mo McRoberts <[email protected]> >> >> >> >> So, what does everyone think? >> >> >> >> (and how much effect will it have on the <video> situation over the >> >> next 18 months or so, do we reckon?) >> >> >> >> M. >> >> - >> >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, >> >> please >> >> visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. >> >> Unofficial list archive: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > >> > Brian Butterworth >> > >> > follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist >> > web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and >> > switchover >> > advice, since 2002 >> > >> >> - >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please >> visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. >> Unofficial list archive: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > -- > > Brian Butterworth > > follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist > web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover > advice, since 2002 > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
