[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:54:13 +0000, John Wingate wrote: > > > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> That would be a good guess, except that Microsoft's predatory and illegal > >> behaviour began long before OS/2 was even planned. It began in the mid > >> 1970s, with MS DOS. > > > > Nitpick: MS-DOS first appeared in 1981. > > [slaps head] > > Of course it did.
The first thing I ever bought of Microsoft's, in 1982 or so, was a CP/M board for my Apple IIe. CP/M, whose programmers to this day defend sticking with 8-bit CPUs because 'they can't find a 4-bit chip they like'. Yeah, there's some desktop innovation for you. OS/2 1.0 was released in 1987, but the "selling" of it started in 1985 or so by IBM and Microsoft. It was a 286 OS. IBM seems to have had a history of squeezing out competition in the same way Microsoft has, if I recall correctly. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
