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I guess you can also draw similarities to the MS/IBM joint venture that was OS/2, but that actually released products - even if MS dumped it for NT.
by fourfour3 3y ago
I guess you can also draw similarities to the MS/IBM joint venture that was OS/2, but that actually released products - even if MS dumped it for NT.
- lstodd 3y agoOh, OS/2 Warp was fine. I even had it as my default OS for a while back then.
- EricE 3y agoTeam OS/2 Baby! I still wish I had the salmon polo from the Warp comdex push.
- p_l 3y agoMS/IBM joint venture failed through Windows 3.0, which in turn apparently was kickstarted by one person in the company.
- pjmlp 3y agoYes, if I am not mistaken, this is one of the books that tells which person was it. "Undocumented Windows: A Programmers Guide to Reserved Microsoft Windows Api Functions (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series/Book and Disk" https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/0201608340 https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/0201608340 Pity as SOM was much better alternative than COM, and OS/2 in general. However that wasn't the only issue that nailed OS/2's destiny, higher hardware resources and lack of proper management direction from IBM side also played a big role.