Hmmm... that was what I always understood from various and sundry stories
and authors....
But if you were there, I'm going with your version.
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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