Was that the 2.99 beta? OS/2 was indeed a lot better than Windows, but it was not to be.
It was not down to Microsoft, though. They did not indulge in any more dirty tricks than one would expect, from a company in their position. IBM did it all by themselves. We were phenomenally incompetent. IMO the biggest single factor was the cartel on RAM memory. At the time manufacturers were all charging a whopping $25 per megabyte. OS/2 needed 8MB to run comfortably, but Windows 3 was happy with 4MB. And the leading member of the cartel was... -----Original Message----- From: Kent Loobey [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 14 January 2009 18:25 To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Are you feeling special? On Wednesday 14 January 2009 02:45:45 you wrote: > Palm is making the same mistake that IBM did. In a previous incarnation I > was head of OS/2 evangelization for IBM EMEA (yes, I am a very old guy). I > helped to set up devcon, but by then it was already too late. Almost no > consumer software was ever developed for OS/2. Microsoft are crap > developers themselves, but they sure know how to encourage other people. I'm an old guy too. I was in the OS/2 beta program. I loved OS/2 and was really bummed when it didn't prevail in the market place. Microsoft fights dirty but for some reason the general public doesn't notice or doesn't care. So we get crap from MS. -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/ -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
