Larry Stotler wrote:
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:42 AM, G T Smith
Not when first released .... some parts of the API did not work properly (i.e. as described in the docs) for a couple of years... and without the web trying to find out what the hell was going on from IBM even as a 'privileged' customer was damn near impossible....
That was in the 1.x days. From 2.0 on, it was stable. I got my first copy at 2.1.
One of the reasons OS/2 lost to Windows 3.x is that it was very unfriendly to much legacy DOS stuff and there was little available to replace these on OS/2 originally... (and an OS without usable apps is a useful as a chocolate teapot, no.. correction... you can eat a chocolate teapot so the latter is more useful :-) )... At the institution I was based in about 90 days of receiving a bundle of OS/2 based PS/2s at least three quarters ended up running DOS/Windows 3.0..
Windows won because of M$'s illegal contracts that required that we sell a copy of win/dos on every machien we sold, whether it went out the door with it or not. To get a discount, you had to agree to these draconian terms, or you couldn't make much money. They were never nailed for that, even though that was what was actually happening. Even now, they are still trying to do the same thing by threatening to jack the price up. And the US Gov has never done anything about it.
IIRC, they were about to get nailed, after the last anti trust trial, but then Dubya became president and then the penalty was greatly reduced. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org