Jack Stein wrote:
Rod & Betty Jo wrote:

You've got it backwards.....IBM wanted to buy the
code.........Gates
insisted on the license and the ability to sell to third party PC
manufacturers (he declined a multi-million dollar offer from IBM).
IBM as well tried to keep the PC market propriety but between Intel
owning the chip, Microsoft owning the OS and third parties (Compaq
I
think) cracking the hardware they could not. For DOS both IBM and
Microsoft had separate support /development teams (Microsoft's much
smaller, leaner and more effective).

It's a cartel. Intel owns the chips, MS owns the OS, and IBM owns
the
hardware and service end. Every time everyone has enough hardware
and
chip power to run his screwed up OS, MS comes out with a bigger,
more
bloated, slower system. He provides no backwards support and INTEL
sells more chips, IBM gets more royalties and sells more service as
nothing Gates has done has ever worked quite right. It's the same
old
**** over and over. Probably why J. Clark is tired of hearing it.

PC DOS was supported by IBM and MSDOS was supported by
Microsoft. Various DOS version releases flip flopped between the
teams. IBM fully expected OS/2 to render DOS obsolete long before
its ultimate demise. Microsoft's Window development was a bit of a
sleeper with ver 3 setting the stage for a WIN95 knockout.......Rod

Win95 was no knockout. It damn near killed Windows. IBM never
wanted
anything to do with owning the OS that dominated everyones computers
so when OS2 was about to kill Windows dead as a doornail, IBM pulled
the plug when OS2 was reaching critical mass (million copies a month
being sold.)

OS2 was the only version of windows that actually worked. It was
bullet proof with a windows interface. Not as strong as UNIX but it
had the file system and memory protection required for an OS to work
without constant problems. IBM killed it because it didn't fit in
with the windows garbage plan that has kept the cartel very rich and
famous.

Boring. One of these days one of you OS advocates will actually get a
fact right and I'll die of shock.

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