From: Egan Orion 

Robert Comer wrote:
> Hi Egan, nice to see you around here again!

Thanks.

> Microchannel was yet another better computer product that didn't win (plug
> and play that really worked!) -- IBM's problem with it was licensing and
> pricing.

Yes, IBM tried to recapture control over PC hardware. It didn't work, since
open market hardware was already available. Terms matter, even more than
marginal technical advantage. IBM's mismanagement of the PC platform
snowballed, its earlier blunders leading it into later ones.

> Have you forgot the Win3.1 resource problems, the Win95 Win16Mutex lockups
> and plug and play that never plugged and played well, not to mention the
> memory leaks and just general instability of Win95 for years that never was
> solved. Even after they revved it several times up through WinME.

I vaguely recall hearing something about those, but didn't experience them
myself because I used OS/2: a (company) notebook PC with Windows, an OS/2
partition, and a shared data drive.  What I used was on OS/2, even Lotus
Notes. Thus I never had those random crashes under Windows.

BTW, I do something similar now with Linux. I recently wrote a Linux
channel marketing tool in Excel VBA for IBM, on Linux under CrossOver
Office. Except for a couple of trivial glitches, it works very well.

Egan

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