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An interesting antitrust exhibit about MS/IBM and OS/2 2.0

October 29, 2011 6:34:52 PM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums

Here it is:

techrights.org/comes-vs-microsoft/text/msg00176.html

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Reply #1 October 29, 2011 7:14:04 PM
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20 year old news about obsolete operating systems?

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Reply #2 October 29, 2011 7:17:47 PM
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That's what I though Wizard and why I didn't click on the link.

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Reply #3 October 29, 2011 7:33:28 PM
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Stardock once focused on OS/2, which is why I thought this was good. It is an anti-trust exhibit that took some time before it is revealed.

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Reply #4 October 30, 2011 12:41:53 PM
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That' actually an interesting document to read. ' wow.

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Reply #5 October 30, 2011 1:46:44 PM
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Here we read how come we had to wait 20 years before a same quality OS (win7) as OS/2 came on the market. Makes you want to cry all over again.

 

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Reply #6 October 30, 2011 4:11:14 PM
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To be fair, OS/2 had some really wonky quircks. I've had it installed on a machine before. It wasn't neccesarily bad for it's time, but it was certainly different, that's for sure.

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Reply #7 October 30, 2011 6:12:08 PM
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What I find most interesting in that email is Microsoft's position at the time that "OS/2 was plagued from the beginning by the late deliveries and poor code, demonstrating again that excellent software can only be written by small teams, at a single site, sharing a similar culture."

The Microsoft of today is the IBM of yesterday.

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Reply #8 October 30, 2011 8:19:51 PM
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Quoting JcRabbit,
reply 7
What I find most interesting in that email is Microsoft's position at the time that "OS/2 was plagued from the beginning by the late deliveries and poor code, demonstrating again that excellent software can only be written by small teams, at a single site, sharing a similar culture."

The Microsoft of today is the IBM of yesterday.

From a vintage when "no-one will ever need more than 640k ram...."

With the benefit of hindsight just about anyone is an idiot....

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Reply #9 October 30, 2011 9:10:58 PM
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Reply #10 October 30, 2011 10:41:47 PM
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Quoting Jafo,
reply 8
With the benefit of hindsight just about anyone is an idiot...

Wrong:

With the benefit of hindsight just about anyone everybody is an idiot...

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Reply #11 October 30, 2011 10:42:21 PM
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Quoting Jafo,
reply 8
From a vintage when "no-one will ever need more than 640k ram...."

With the benefit of hindsight just about anyone is an idiot....

Hehe, how true. When he said that, I had managed to write a whole Basic interpreter (with support for graphical windows, sprites, wire frame graphics, etc...) in just under *16* KB of Assembly Z80 code (God bless the Sinclair Zx Spectrum!). So I know where he was coming from - 640 KB of memory at at the time was HUGE!

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Reply #12 October 31, 2011 12:16:06 AM
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In fact, what would be even better is that if MS can wait until IBM finish what became IBM OS/2 2.0 GA and ship that instead as MS OS/2 2.0.

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