On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 20:53, Lee Roberts wrote: > On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 12:36 PM, Gerard Perreault wrote: > > > > You can expect a feirce battle ahead. They are already trying to > > diversify, > > the X box is an example. Pretty soon, products like Lindows, VMware, > > Wine and > > the likes will make M$-Windows a sub-system, something running under the > > control of another major OS, and with time it will be less and less > > used even > > if available. > > > > IBM had a similar concept when OS/2 Warp was released. It failed even > though OS/2 is much better than Windows, IMO. Better luck with Linux........ >
Wasn't OS/2 a forerunner of Windows NT? Seems like I recall reading a long time ago that OS/2 was a collaborative effort between Microsoft and IBM. For whatever reason, the two companies quit the venture, and Microsoft "stole" the concepts of OS/2 and made NT. -- Mitch Thompson, San Antonio TX Key fingerprint = BBDA 3A2A 4483 BD0D 7CED B8A9 D183 C8F6 B0AF 66AE -- Steve Balmer, CEO of Microsoft�, recently referred to Linux as a cancer. Unsuprisingly, this is incorrect - Linux was released on August 25th, 1991, and is therefore a virgo.
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