Interesting to note that IBM's OS/2 was a real operating system from day 1 --
some 15 or so years
ago. It ran in protected mode with preemptive multi-tasking. (unlike M$'s
amateurish attempts at
cooperative multi-tasking and crash on everything else in the system mode --
real junk).
And it beat 95 to market, and could run any 16 bit Windows code better than 95.
But as one person on the list once said it lacked quality because it didn't
sell, and the M$ crap
did sell. Kind'a like pornography and Triumphs I guess -- pornography sells and
Triumphs didn't. So
there you have it.
Don Malling
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