On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:27:22 -0500 John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
> Anyway, OS/2 had great technology and no marketing, and was buried by > Microsoft's fantastic marketing of their nonexistent technology. > Frickin' IBM couldn't sell ice-water in hell. to get windows 95 preloads at a "partner" rate ibm was required by MS to not market WARP. what theyt laked was the balls to take on ms at that time. came out in the anti trust case. I ran os/2 from 2.0 though warp 4. Unlike MS they provided support: you got help to get networking runing at base levels, monitor at appropriate resolution, dial up functioning and printer running. through a toll free support line. almost as good as the community support for Ubuntu Linux. Bran -- "Love" is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.- Robert Heinlein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
