[cctalk] Re: MS-DOS

On 7/29/24 17:21, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: Umm, no.  OS/2 was a joint development effort between IBM and Microsoft.  IBM had actually started work on it first and enlisted Microsoft early on mainly because they wanted an OS that wasn't viewed as something just by IBM (e.g. they wanted broad industry support).  That all went away when Bill decided to take Microsoft their own way. I was not a fan of OS/2 while at IBM but it was a decent OS.  I was on the "mode switch task force" which argued against using that crazy feature of the 286/386 and argued that the "new" OS should move directly to the 386 but we were overridden by management due to schedule constraints.  As it turned out OS/2 was very late and the the 386 was (more or less) on time which was the main argument from management (OS/2 would *only* take 9 months...it was more like 18 and the 386 would be late just like the 286 and it wasn't). -- TTFN - Guy