On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Bran Everseeking <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
One major factor that lead to Window's dominance rather than OS/2's is that much of the enthusiast community shunned OS/2 due to its utter incompatibility with dos4gw-based applications (and similar direct-hardware-access based software) and thus pretty much every major game of the mid-1990's. Windows 3.1 could just be shut down and the game run in DOS and Win95 had MUCH better support for DOS games than OS/2. A surprisingly large amount of the market, especially the home market, was influenced by this fact. Otherwise we'd all be running OS/2 today, or even more likely Deskview/X (which was superior to OS/2 in many regards). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
