Re: The Future of IBM ..

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To my memory Jerry this is the wrong way round.

IBM wrote their OS/2 components in C/C++ for portability to future hardware platforms. Microsoft continued writing their pieces in assembler despite having agreed earlier to use C/C++. They claimed that it was a performance issue - but there were rumours that keeping Intel sweet by effectively tying themselves to the Intel platform was part of the picture.

MS were supposed, as part of the OS/2 agreement, to stop development on future versions of Windows. They didn't. 


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
> Queen Victoria loved _Alice in Wonderland_ and requested a copy of Lewis
> Carroll's next book.  It was _Syllabus of Plane Algebraical Geometry_.
> -- 

Jon Paris

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