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The real reason Windows succeeded and OS/2 didn't: Microsoft gave theirdevkit away, IBM wanted something like $6000 for theirs.
OS/2 first came out. For some reason, probably because I had a yellow pages
I was fairly well established as a software developer when Windows and
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To my memory Jerry this is the wrong way round.
IBM wrote their OS/2 components in C/C++ for portability to future
future versions of Windows. They didn't.
MS were supposed, as part of the OS/2 agreement, to stop development on
Geometry_.
On 2013-06-29, at 6:49 PM, Jerry C. Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
OS/2 was written in Assembler, which is not, well, very transportable.
At the same time that Microsoft was working on it, they were coding
Windows in C or C++, which is highly portable. [At least, that's what
I heard while at a conference at the Palisades conference center eons
ago - which, by the way, had OS/2 PCs in every room.]
Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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Lewis Carroll's next book. It was _Syllabus of Plane Algebraical
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