Re: Free OS/400

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

On Mon, 02 July 2001, Nina Jones wrote:

> 
> but what was ibm's goal for os/2?  were they trying to get into the business
> market, or capture the kid's market?  were they trying to oust microsoft as 
>the
> distributed p/c operating system?


Hard to say now what IBM's goal was. But since OS/2 was a Microsoft/IBM joint 
project, I certainly doubt the goal was to oust Microsoft. It seems a lot of 
people have forgotten (or never knew) where OS/2 came from.

Tom Liotta


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