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My favorite is the OS/2 2.0 fiasco, and I think it was Bill Gates that also partly made the initial decision in the first place, right?
by yuhong 11y ago
My favorite is the OS/2 2.0 fiasco, and I think it was Bill Gates that also partly made the initial decision in the first place, right?
- hga 11y agoThe key decision there was made by IBM previously, they'd told their legion of CIOs that the PC-AT was the last personal computer they'd have to buy for a long while. Which required the foundational OS/2 1 to run on the brain dead protected mode of the 286; much of the ensuing mess resulted from this requirement....
- yuhong 11y agoI know, but 32-bit OS/2 was the era most of the unethical stuff that attacked OS/2 was done by MS for example.