Vincent Fritters <[email protected]> writes: > On 2009-03-03, amicus_curious <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Stick with the bologna and goetta, Vince, you are likely to be better at >> that than you are at remembering the chronological order of things. >> Microsoft had their falling out with IBM over Windows 3.0, not NT. > > Microsoft were actively developing NT at the time which is why I said > posioning the marketplace with FUD. It was a "wait until NT comes out > rather than OS/2 because NT is going to kill OS/2". They kept companies > from comitting to OS/2 while at the same time smiling and helping > IBM develop OS/2. > > >> NT came >> much later, after OS/2 and Win95 were locking horns. > > Yes. > That was version 2.0 > I was speaking as far back as 1.3 which is as far as I go. > That was direct competition in the marketplace to see who got released first > and who was better. > IBM blew that one big time for reasons you state below. > >> IBM didn't want a >> cheap GUI based platform like Windows as competition for their rather pricey >> OS/2 with its Presentation Manager. Gates saw the future differently, of >> course, and was able to gain the upper hand. If IBM would have had its way >> and managed to kill Windows at an early age, we would all be using OS/2 on >> IBM's PS/2 or maybe by now it would be OS/5 on the PS/5, but there would be >> no massive competition for Wintel PCs, that much is certain. IBM was unable >> to recapture the PC market in the early 90s because they were opposed by >> Microsoft and the cloners like Compaq and Dell and many others. Would you >> rather IBM had the monopoly in hardware and software? Silly boy. > > That was true for the 1.x versions, but IBM opened up for the 2.x version. > The problem was it was too late and Microsoft was holding developers hands > to write drivers. IBM was charging for the privilage. > > Presentation manager was in OS/2 1.x not OS/2 2.x
Wrong. Presentation manager was indeed in OS/2 2.x And Warp. http://www.firstandsecond.com/store/books/info/bookinfo.asp?txtSearch=237799 > > 2.x had the workplace shell, although technically it was built on PM. It had the WPS but this does not mean the PM was not used. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
