From: Michael Block (mblock_at_optushome.com.au)
Date: Wed Jun 15 2005 - 01:14:10 PDT
OS/2 died BECAUSE IBM were backing it!
On 15/06/2005, at 3:15 PM, newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net wrote:
>
> For consumers, yes. For the company that makes it, I'm not so sure.
> OS/2 was
> a direct competitor to Windows. It was arguably better than Windows
> in many
> ways, it had IBM backing it, none of it helped. It's all but dead.
regards
Michael Block
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