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   Free Lunch  wrote in   
   news:0ajm78dhokg0o1t0i586ldgucpokkapuil@4ax.com:    
      
   > On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 13:02:48 -0500, RD Sandman   
   >  wrote in alt.atheism:   
   >    
   >>Kelsey Bjarnason  wrote in   
   >>news:k5di6h$eff$2@dont-email.me:    
   >>   
   >>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:59:02 +0000, Kirby Grant wrote:   
   >>>    
   >>>> On  9-Oct-2012,  wrote at alt.atheism:   
   >>>>    
   >>>>> "Kirby Grant"  writes:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> 1> Newsgroups:   
   >>>>>    
   >>> alt.atheism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.religion.christian,comp.os.os2   
   >>> .a dvocacy,talk.politics.guns    
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> 1> But just like monkeys, the Republicans can be made to wear   
   >>>>> diapers. While it 1> is true that there is an advantage to monkeys   
   >>>>> since they work for peanuts,   
   >>>>> 1> at least you can tell the Repubicans to pick up their banana   
   >>>>> peels instead 1> of letting the lie around.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> What does your poor spelling have to do with OS/2, Grant?   
   >>>>    
   >>>> Well, your insistance in having OS/2 as a topic shows your vast   
   >>>> ignorance. OS/2 has not been a factor in anything for many years.   
   >>>> It was a playtoy for a few geeks but never caught on because it was   
   >>>> so poorly designed.   
   >>>    
   >>> Actually, it was very well designed.  What caused its downfall was a   
   >>> combination of being essentially sabotaged, then the delays caused   
   >>> by that to out-market it.   
   >>>    
   >>> If it weren't for some truly slimy, underhanded corporate   
   >>> shenanigans, OS/2 would likely be a very viable option today.   
   >>>    
   >>>    
   >>   
   >>One of the biggest things that killed it was a lack of a killer ap.    
   >>That and some of the joint development money that went to MS was used   
   >>on Windows rather than some of the OS/2 stuff it was to be directed   
   >>to.    
   >    
   > Let's not forget PS/2 and IBM's idea that it would be able to reclaim   
   > control of the corporate desktop even though it wanted businesses to   
   > pay twice as much for a good PS/2 with OS/2 (memory hog at the time)   
   > and token ring (not a lot of competition there).    
      
   Which resulted in confusion in the market place that OS/2 would only run    
   on a PS/2 with Microchannel Architecture.  At the time PS/2 was    
   developed, IBM owned over 70% of the marketplace having lost about 15% of    
   it from its heydey.   
      
   > Unixes and ethernet have been survivors because they were very well   
   > designed. Windows survived because MSFT has a ton of money and has   
   > historically been willing to let every hardware manufacturer work with   
   > them.   
      
   Actually, they let every hardware manufacturer see the interfaces and    
   worked with those who had a product coming down the pike that MS wanted    
   to support.  IBM decided to stick only with its customers.   
      
    None of the hardware folks make money, but the prices are low.   
   >    
      
      
      
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