On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 20:24:03 +0000
Dan Williams <williams.dan at gmail.com> wrote:
woodelf
wrote:
Mind you if somebody came up with a better OS
when the
386's came out, would we have windows
today?
OS/2 ?
When OS/2 was first coming out, there were MS-DOS enthusiasts who
were very leery of it. Mainly because it came out in the same
time period as the PS/2 Microchannel systems, and some people
viewed it as a threat, as IBM's attempt to 'close the
architecture' and grab back control of the PC platform.