Comment nostalgic (Score 2) 270
For those who cry "who cares?!", please realize that this posting is probably due in part to some wistful nostalgia on the poster's part. I myself feel it and care.
Back in 1994, I had a 486 running OS/2 v3. Note that the latest Windows available was "3.11". To demo my 16MB box, I'd format a floppy, have two animated games (chess and solitaire) play themselves, do a "dir /s" at the root of an NFS-mounted drive, "dir /s" on my big, fat HPFS-formatted D: drive (250MBs?), and write text in a real word processor, Describe. Talk about multitasking.
Microsoft was better manipulating/threatening OEMs. IBM was too big and slow, and most of the organization didn't give a damn about a PC OS. And who would really have wanted IBM to "win" anyway? And who'd want equal marketshare between the two, with two different APIs constantly changing? ISVs would've hated it, especially with the way Microsoft keeps them running in circles.
Etc. etc., boy, am I over the OS wars!
Back in 1994, I had a 486 running OS/2 v3. Note that the latest Windows available was "3.11". To demo my 16MB box, I'd format a floppy, have two animated games (chess and solitaire) play themselves, do a "dir
Microsoft was better manipulating/threatening OEMs. IBM was too big and slow, and most of the organization didn't give a damn about a PC OS. And who would really have wanted IBM to "win" anyway? And who'd want equal marketshare between the two, with two different APIs constantly changing? ISVs would've hated it, especially with the way Microsoft keeps them running in circles.
Etc. etc., boy, am I over the OS wars!
