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Old 08-19-2013, 01:39 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
It was a real OS but IBM marketed is a Desqview competitor (a system integration tool) instead of as a desktop OS. The DRAM cartel's price fix also screwed them over big time.
By the time the feds busted the cartel, MS had NT 3.5 and a fully fleshed out Win32 ecosystem.

Understanding the needs of the end user is as critical for computing platforms as for content platforms. Amazon obviously learned the right lessons from those that came before and fell flat on their face by not building a solid ecosystem.

(See? Not off-topic.)
We didn't market OS/2 as a DesqView competitor. Your view of history regarding OS/2, NT, and other systems of the time are quite inaccurate.
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