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To: art slott who wrote (33413)	11/9/1999 12:39:00 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (3) of 74651

art: That article is kinda wrong. O/S2 was a flop all by itself. The reason it failed is that IBM tied it to P/S2. You might remember this, if you were in the business back in ~1987. IBM wanted to recreate the monopoly they had on the PC industry before companies like Chips and Technologies reverse engineered the secret IBM bios chip. People were too smart. Even today, there are some IBM pc's out there THAT CANNOT BE MODIFIED WITHOUT GOING TO IBM AND PAYING $200 for an IBM nic card. (a clone card costs $13) MSFT didn't put an end to this. MSFT wrote a operating system, that although was not 'quite as good' as O/S2 allowed me not to be locked into the IBM monopoly. Personally, I don't think this is bad for consumers, do you? Although you do have a point. It certainly did damage IBM. You're right on another point too, if you tell the Big Lie long enough, it works. Duke

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