Olaf Greve wrote back:
>
> Hi,
>
> > This is not at all factually correct.
>
> [...]
>
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>
> Well, I certainly found your "history lesson" to be very interesting
> (seriously)!
>
> I did not know there was all this to it, I had always understood my short
> (and apparently incorrect version) to be more or less what happened.
> Somewhere last year there was also some TV program which dealt about
> MicroSoft's success, and I think they more or less stated the same (maybe
> not though, can't be sure anymore).
>
> Also my wording was chosen a bit poorly, I guess. MS may indeed have
> "believed" in OS/2 and have developed a big part of it, but the bottomline I
> was getting at was that at one point in time they broke with IBM (who then
> continued on the OS/2 trail), and went on to pursue "their" Windows stuff.
I read an editorial in a PC magazine about 6 years ago, that
"reportedly" an official from IBM had said that IBM and Microsoft was
having a big misunderstanding. When asked how long the parting of the
ways would last, his answer was about two years. The writer was trying
to make a point that this was a *planned* parting of the ways, until IBM
could undermine the plan of the chip Apple, IBM and Motorola were later
working on. He supported his claim of a conspiracy by indicating that
IBM kept demanding more and more be added to the chip until Apple had
basically lost out on market share. The editorial said that both IBM
and Microsoft were afraid of Apple, and what a computer that could run
PC programs but still do what a Mac could do. They thought it might
really cut into their market *he claimed*.
So, thanks for an insider' take on what was going on.
>
> Either way: regarding the competition between IBM and Apple, there
> definitely was some. In the same program as mentioned above, they even
> showed some examples of a pretty aggressive Apple campaign, where they had
> this big factory set up with all sort of people dressed completely in blue,
> etc.
>
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