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Sure and you could buy SCO UNIX for that machine for only $3500. Everyone knew DOS was awful, but it had all the software, and the alternatives (e.g. OS/2) wer
by flomo 8y ago
Sure and you could buy SCO UNIX for that machine for only $3500.
Everyone knew DOS was awful, but it had all the software, and the alternatives (e.g. OS/2) were worse. Once Windows matured, adoption was immediate.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoOS/2 wasn't worse than DOS. OS/2 was (eventually) worse than Windows. The problem with OS/2 was that it was part of IBM's PS/2 strategy, which was designed to create a non-cloneable new PC platform, and thereby return to a high-margin business. Windows, in contrast, chose to keep running on commodity hardware. The market chose "hundreds cheaper" over "technically better". IBM eventually tried to run OS/2 on PC clones, but by then, Windows had too much of a lead to overcome.