2 Feb
2007
2 Feb
'07
8:16 a.m.
On Feb 1, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Warren Wolfe wrote:
IBM licensed MS-DOS from Microsoft, and CP/M-86
from Digital
Research, and did NOT develop their own Operating System until OS/2,
which was essentially stillborn.
Oh nonono. I'm sorry to have to correct you here Warren, but
nothing could be further from the truth. First, OS/2 was written by
Microsoft and sold to IBM. OS/2 was FAR from stillborn...it was in
use in damn near every bank office in the country for a very long
time, with probably half of those installations likely still in
place...I know the two banks I go to regularly still run it on at
least one desktop. OS/2 is an extremely widely deployed operating
system...you just can't buy it in Best Buy, so people think it's
dead...or never lived in the first place. It was only discontinued
1.5 years ago.
Please note that this is NOT coming from an OS/2 fan. ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL