Tom Duerbusch wrote:
It wasn't IBM's fault. It was underhanded, illegal acts by Microsoft.
Oh, they certainly had a part in it. But so did IBM. There was this attitude that hardware vendors should write the drivers all themselves, which led to many users not being able to install OS/2. M$, which had taken that attitude at first, had changed their minds for the 1994 launching of NT 3.5 before the 1994 launching of Warp.
Also, as noted in my previous post, Warp was generally hard to install compared to NT 3.5. I was a beta developer for NT 3.1 -- had stuff on the early M$ disks. I switched to OS/2 because the kernel and the TCP/IP stack on OS/2 were better. But PM crashed regularly. Windows on NT 3.5 almost never crashed. IBM never *really* grokked consumer operating systems. The first OS/2 literature I read in 1988 referred to a 386 running OS/2 as "a programmable [mainframe] terminal" which was the zeitgeist in IBM --- still a glass house that late in the game. So it can't ALL be blamed on M$, sons-of-others-than-their-fathers that they are. Which I said on VNET in 1994 and almost got fired from IBM for saying so! -- Jack J. Woehr # "I never played fast and loose with the PO Box 51, Golden, CO 80402 # Constitution. Never did and never will." http://www.well.com/~jax # - Harry S Truman
