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To: gbh who wrote (47109)	2/14/1999 11:38:00 PM
From: Don Lloyd	Respond to of 132070

(...Had IBM truly rammed OS/2 into the market, the way MSFT eventually did with win3.1, I suspect the ultimate outcome would have been quite different. But, IBM never really believed in the PC revolution, and the rest is history. MSFT won in the marketplace because they had conviction...) Most of what you say sounds about right. I suspect that IBM thought that they had an understanding with MS in the development of OS/2 and that they would concentrate on the corporate side and let MS handle the consumer side. MS apparently did nothing to disabuse them of this notion until it was too late. Regards, Don