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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 483.03+0.5%Dec 5 9:30 AM EST
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To: William Chaney who wrote (33423)11/9/1999 1:19:00 PM
From: The Duke of URL©   of 74651
 
William:

>> OS/2 flopped, all right, but it wasn't PS/2 specific, at least for ver. 2.1, which was what I started with about 1991-2 on a locally built 486 clone. <<

That would fit. IBM just did not cease the efforts on os2 after Microsoft quit the joint development. They continued to produce it, and do so to this day. It was the "P/S2 that went bye, bye.

I seem to remember that they had a 1000 engineers working on it. If they could have perfected it, it still might have detroyed MSFT and given them back the PC business thru the back door. Once it would have been accepted as the standand, they could always make it incompatable later. Nobody was buying it. (the concept, I mean:))

The only thing IBM could do was to make it generic, to save the product.

>>IBM's hesitancy to define the product clearly was an important factor in its inability to become a viable OS for the market.
<<

IBM never cared about o/s2. They were a hardware company and the real original purpose of os2 was to sell hardware. When they discovered the "grand plan" had been discovered by the consumer, ie that the consumer was not going to buy into the multibuck upgrade path...well you can well imagine their lack of enthusiasm and hence the lack of desire to define the product.

Duke
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