Whilst masticating on , mark lewis (1:3634/12)
wrote to Alan Hess:

AH>> If they did, they wouldn't have surrendered the desktop war.
AH>> OS/2 was, and maybe still is, superior to Windows, but IBM
AH>> backed down to M$.  *adh*

ml> true about OS/2 being the better of the two... however, IBM 
ml> didn't backdown only because of m$... there was also the large 
ml> home and soho user support network to contend with... m$ was 
ml> already used to that... IBM wasn't and wanted to make money like 
ml> they always had by charging for service and support...

There's still eComstation (OEM OS/2), but someone has to create drivers and
stuff for it (some still are.)  *adh*

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