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Originally Posted by HarryT
The Windows vs. OS/2 "wars" were even worse!
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Oh, that was just a noisy rear guard action by a bunch of system integration fans and computer scientists. IBM lost that game in the first inning, when they pinned their hopes on system integration ("A better DOS than DOS, better Windows than Windows") instead of application developers and end users. (Plus, there was the DRAM conspiracy...)
The CLI war on the other hand was universal; everybody was involved, Atari and Commodore, ARM and Apricot, Lotus, Wordperfect, Apple, Microsoft...
There was Windows vs GEOS vs GEM vs MAC vs XWindows...
The CLI war pitted software guys vs each other, hardware camp vs hardware camp, user vs user, even the Apple fans were divided.
Total war.
Entire companies died in that war. Lots of them.
By comparison Win95 vs Warp was a Hachette vs Amazon catfight: lots of sound and fury and whinging, little substance. The die was long cast...
Both users and software developers had placed theirs bets on Windows.