On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > As per their partnership agreement, IBM took over development of OS/2 > version 2 while Microsoft worked on developing version 3. OS/2 2.0 was > significantly improved over the 1.x series. > > Then Microsoft reneged on the agreement to release OS/2 version 3, and > instead re-badged it as Windows NT. One might say there was a little bit > of bad blood over this, especially as IBM had good reason to think that > Microsoft had been spending IBM's money on NT.
And ever since then, Microsoft's been doing its best to kill OS/2 off. By the look of the database server sitting next to me, and the clients scattered throughout the building, it seems they have yet to succeed... OS/2 and Linux interoperate quite happily, too. Standards FTW. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
