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Originally Posted by ApK
You'd think they'd have learned enough from the PC-DOS/MS-DOS efforts.
Was it really a subcontract thing? I had been under the impression that it was out right joint development, which in the schism resulted in NT and OS/2.
And NT, of course, led to all later versions of Windows, including....wait for it....Windows 10!
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I heard IBM needed more resources to develop OS/2.
It may have been a joint effort rather than a subcontract, but you would think IBM would be have been smart enough not to share secrets with pirates. Argg.
Beyond that M$ knew how to deal/partner with other vendors to share the booty=mutual success. IBM had to try to do it all themselves=independent fail.
It is nice we have another choice with GNU/Linux. I wish I had converted to Unix years ago.