Sound like a twisted Microsoft story. 'Tain't exactly true.
Chuck Norcutt (who was there and whose boss signed the IBM/Microsoft
shared development contract for OS/2) :-)
On 1/11/2013 2:32 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
> Wow.....
>
> What version? Warp 4? I'm suprised to see someone other than a bank
> machine still running OS/2, especially on the internet.
>
> Was an interesting OS. IBM originally created it to compete with
> Microsoft, but Microsoft got involved with the development of it to, as
> Steve Ballmer put it, "Ride the Dragon's back". In other words, IBM was
> too important a partner to lose, so MS helped them write OS/2 so they could
> keep them close and keep an eye on them. They also could make sure it
> wasn't that good.
>
> In many ways, far superior to MS-DOS and Windows 95. But IBM was so
> focused on keeping it only on their hardware, while MS let anybody and
> everybody building an x86-based box run Windows.
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