I know a lot about OS/2. I covered operating systems for PC World from 1989 to 1993 and used every version from 1.0 to 4.0. It was technically advanced in certain ways but utterly unsuitable for the average users IBM somehow thought would buy it. Microsoft had no choice but to unchain themselves from that sinking ship.
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Dov Isaacs <isaacs at adobe.com> wrote: > Maybe we can just stop labelling people as ?morons? or ?incompetents? ? > > And by the way, if you know anything about the real history of OS/2, you > wouldn?t be labelling them as ?incompetents.? The fact was that OS/2 was > supposed to be the enterprise OS for PCs as a joint Microsoft / IBM project > until Microsoft stabbed IBM in the back deciding to go their own way and > back out of their commitments. Technically, OS/2 was far ahead of Windows?9x > and early Windows NT!
