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RE: The Future of IBM ..

Well... OS/2 was a joint venture between Microsoft and IBM for the first couple versions of OS/2 until the relationship ended in 1990.

So that's why there was compatibility to begin with... IBM didn't build OS/2 by themselves.

-----Original Message-----
From: DeLong, Eric [mailto:EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 5:21 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: The Future of IBM ..

And the killing stroke, IBM made OS/2 Warp runtime compatible with applications written for Microsoft Windows. Once this was proven to work, software developers never needed to write OS/2 versions of their applications, so the OS was never able to showcase its potential...

-Eric DeLong

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Musselman, Paul
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 4:08 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: The Future of IBM ..

The problem with the OS/2 ad campaign was that the marketing guys had no idea what the techies were talking about when they talked about OS/2 working at warp speed. The marketeers saw "warp" as twisted, waving-- hence the swirling logotype. But the techies were talking about "Warp factor 9, Mister Scott!"

Another -major- blunder in the ad campaign-- they never bothered to tell you exactly what OS/2 Warp -was-! They didn't bother to tell you that it was everything Microsoft Windows 95 (?) promised, but available NOW! Windows/95 was still just an advertising campaign!

Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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