amicus_curious wrote:
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> "The Ghost In The Machine" <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:6nk5s4-qos.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> IBM is like an elephant, and will never forget.
>>
>> That sequence isn't quite complete, apparently, as it does
>> not mention the breakup/divorce/fallout of the OS/2 <->
>> Windows effort. This was sometime just before Win3.0
>> or Win3.1.
>>
> IBM tried to proprietize the PC hardware with PS/2, MicroChannel, and
> OS/2, trying for a coup that would stop the march of the cloners.
Except, they did not
There where *two* versions of OS/2 around at that time.
One running only on MicroChannel machines (which were not at all available
only from IBM, other manufacturers for those existed) and one version for
standard PCs
Bill Weisgerber tends to "forget" such unfortunate little facts
< snip more billwg garbage >
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