"WaterBoy" <Waterboy@somewhere.com> wrote in
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> Damn Dan! I forgot about OS/2... I actually liked that OS a
> lot. I was hoping for them to make some kind of run, but
> they sat on it way too long. Before we knew it, Windows95
> Was born. I still used OS/2 till Windows95B came out, after
> that it was hard to find support and software that was
> compatible with OS/2...
OEMs had a choice to go with OS/2 or Windows....
.....and they chose Windows (even though some say it was
technically inferior to OS/2....just like Betamax was
technically better than VHS, but, VHS won out).
Why ? I don't know. Maybe the OEMs didn't want to deal with IBM,
they were too big ? Who knows. Maybe it was s/w developers tha
chose.
Hmmm. I wonder if OS/2 will run in VirtualBox. I've never even
seen it.
> WaterBoy...
>
> "DanS" <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote
> in message
> news:Xns9D3E89B09C582thisnthatroadrunnern@216.196.97.131...
>> "WaterBoy" <Waterboy@somewhere.com> wrote in
>> news:Y_qdnddPFdD_TD3WnZ2dnUVZ_h6dnZ2d@giganews.com:
>>
>>> This author is as bias as Alias! I have yet to see him
>>> write anything pro Microsoft. Look I don't like
>>> everything Microsoft does, but they really put out a good
>>> product in Windows 7 and if you don't like it, you don't
>>> have to use it. The Linux desktop OS is nothing more than
>>> a hobby OS.
>>
>> I wouldn't say that.
>>
>>> If Microsoft didn't exist, then I'm pretty sure most
>>> people would get a MAC.
>>
>> If MS did not exist, we'd all be running some decendent of
>> IBM's OS2/Warp.
>>
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