christian,comp.os.os2.advocacy,talk.politics.guns   
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   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).    
      
   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. None of the hardware folks make money, but the prices are low.   
      
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