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-----Original Message-----
From: Don Malling [mailto:dmallin@attglobal.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 10:19 AM
To: Joe Curry; triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Off topic....for sure!
Huh..... ?
I ran OS/2 on PC clones. Built thm myself from the internet. Never owned
a PS/2 machine.
Don Malling
Joe Curry wrote:
> Not to be defensive of Microsoft, but the OS2 thing was aimed at
trying
> to recapture market share that IBM lost to Microsoft.
>
> OS2 was a complete departure from the Windows environment because IBM
> wanted to sever the link so that people would have to buy IBM hardware
> to use the "Advanced" operating system.
>
> On the other hand, Microsoft did not want to leave anybody behind so
> they migrated the 16 bit system gradually with hooks in the 32 bit
> systems back to DOS and 16 bit versions of Windows.
>
> By opening the architecture of their PC's IBM created a huge market by
> allowing all the clone makers to copy their system's functionality.
> That was necessary to counteract the growing Apple inertia. It was
> successful but IBM saw that they could not continue to grow their
> business as they wanted to and let the clone makers continue to erode
> their market share. So they designed the PS2 archetecture and did not
> share it the way they did in the original PC. The release of OS2 was
> timed to coincide with the release of the PS2 archetecture. They also
> wrote the code so that it would run on clones but not as effectively
as
> on their PS2. To their dismay, neither the PS2 or OS2 products took
off
> they way they intended.
>
> Joe
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