On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Bran Everseeking > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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. > 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. that more or less gels with my recollection. ;-) in the summer or a little later of 1995 the then-leading english language pc magazine here in india called pcquest gave away the complete OS/2 Warp free on a CD. i do remember friends saying that things like doom and quake which were the rage then wouldn't run on it... another reason why it didn't make much of an impact then was that most of the PCs were running pirated windows anyway, with the tacit encouragement from MS, of course... :( regards, subash -- 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.
