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To: damniseedemons who wrote (15937)	1/9/1998 1:00:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Sal, "Norm, you have to understand that the Microsoft of those years is not the Microsoft of today. Seems to me like they were really scared of IBM and would have been happy to stay under their thumb had IBM not indicated otherwise." Somehow I believe I understand more about Microsoft at that time then you do. Having worked 20 feet away from the guy who did the fault tolerance for Microsoft's OS/2 I was exposed to each new "internal version" as it arrived on a stack of disks every other day. If IBM divorced MSFT, it was because they could not deliver the product IBM had contracted for in the time-frame promised. Seems like the DOD or somebody sued MSFT for failing to deliver a special version of OS/2 which was fully functional. They are no different today than they were then; only more influential over the market. Cheers, Norm