Thursday, August 23, 2007, 2:56:22 PM, you wrote:

> Hello vitalie
> On Thursday, August 23, 2007 you wrote:

>> Rick Grunwald wrote:
>>> If you still disagree reformat your drive and
>>> install OS/2. After all
>>> Bill Gates himself said it was the best
>>> operating system.
>>>   
>> "...the message we have here is the strong belief
>> that OS/2 is the
>> platform for the 90s".

> I think he said that in the late 80s and was absolutely correct. Then
> IBM got their hands on it and like Lotus 123 slipped into the mists, a
> victim of ineptitude

> If you need a "BM" make it an IBM

I was part of the OS/2 contract dev team. PLEASE don't get me started. I
still have about three or four Blue/White boxes of OS/2 Warp sitting
here on my shelves. I sh*t you not.

IBM has been going downhill in the consumer market for decades.
Letting OS/2 slip and give way to Windows, was the final nail in the
coffin.

...then they sold the hardware units. then the HDD units. then the
laptop...then the.....let me stop here.

-- 
cheers,
 Indie_Dev


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