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Had DEC no cancelled, NT would have never been, and Gates wouldn't have had the confidence to abandon OS/2. So in the end we all won, just Dec had to die. But

Had DEC no cancelled, NT would have never been, and Gates wouldn't have had the confidence to abandon OS/2. So in the end we all won, just Dec had to die. But DEC only saw Altavista as a toy, something for showing off big systems, or doing personal desktop search. The missed such incredible opportunity.

panick21_ 3y ago
Not sure why you say windows not doing OS/2 is so great? OS/2 was a reasonable good OS and a history based on OS/2 rather then Windows 95 and friends seems to be a pretty good path forward. And OS/2 being Microsoft and IBM would have made Microsoft not quite as powerful and dominate. > The missed such incredible opportunity. DEC was sold for around 10 billion, just a few years later Altavista alone was sold for around 2 billion. And Altavista was valued basically 0 in the Compaq acquisition. Compaq seem to really only value the Services division, everything else they didn't care about.