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Calum:
don't take it personally!

i am amazed at how many people i appear to piss off simply by pointing out facts.

it wasn't anything personal!

as you say though, there is a lot of poorly researched microsoft fueled BS on the internet today.

edit: incidentally re: OS/2 it turns out that IBM paid microsoft to develop OS/2 (like it had paid them to "develop" DOS) and microsoft decided at the same time they would use the profits from IBM to do their own similar product. Their Windows would be only an add on to DOS, so while it would still be technically limited to the capabilities of their ripped off version of DOS, it would be cheaper than OS/2 and would have the benefit of being installable on an existing DOS machine. IBM got very shirty about it all, saying that microsoft should not be trying to compete with the very product IBM were paying them to produce.

[ June 12, 2003: Message edited by: Calum ]

Laukev7:
IBM paid Microsoft to write the GUI of OS/2 (you know, the windows 3.1 interface), not the system. IBM wrote the kernel of OS/2, which was multitasking and command-line, like UNIX. After they broke up, IBM wrote their own interface for OS/2 warp 3, and Microsoft used part of the code (which they may or may not have written) in Windows NT.

Neo, it's OK to make mistakes. People have short memories, and the internet was not commonplace back then, so it very easy for MS advocates to change history, willingly or not.

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