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Subject: [OM] Re: Old computers - Geeks and nerds
From: "Leandro DUTRA" <leandro.gfc.dutra@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:28:42 -0300
2008/3/25, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>  Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>  > My statement was not well worded.  I did not mean to say that Microsoft
>  > had no part in OS/2 development.  If it didn't I wouldn't have spent so
>  > much time in Redmond or in chasing down MS developers in Boca Raton bars
>  > to fix bugs in order to keep on schedule.  What I was disputing was the
>  > notion that Microsoft conceived of OS/2 and pushed it as a means of
>  > protecting a proprietary lock-in based on use of forward or reverse
>  > slash in path names.

The documentation does not prove anything about OS/2, but about the
intended migration path to Xenix.

Who conceived OS/2 is of little moment — the thing is that MS
originally wanted a better DOS, then it wanted Xenix, and then,
because of proprietary lock-in, went back to the better DOS plan.  And
the better DOS was OS/2, irrespective of who conceived it or gave it
its name.


>  > I agree completely with Paul's first paragraph but don't agree that
>  > early versions of OS/2 were severely crippled.  There was plenty of
>  > subterfuge on Microsoft's part (such as falsifying performance data on
>  > the HPFS file system) but IBM made many decisions about OS/2 based on
>  > support commitments to OS/2 customers... both internal and external.

>From the point of the view of PC users, OS/2 hadn't enough drivers,
its error messages were too cryptic, it needed very expensive
machines, and was too tied to the too-proprietary, ill-fated PS/2.

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