[plug] Gold !

[bob]

On Friday 26 December 2003 11:09, Simon Scott wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 10:53, James Devenish wrote:
> > In message <Pine.LNX.4.58.0312261000110.22251 at ob>
> >
> > Aside: does anyone know if Microsoft released an OS in 1992 or 1993?
> > I'm sure some neighbours bought a new Intel-based PC with a "new"
> > Microsoft operating system (something that was more like Windows 95
> > than Windows 3.1). Perhaps I was just hallucinating?
>
> OS/2 possibly? An IBM/MS cross-breed, doomed for failure when MS rolled
> over on IBM...... and NT was born :\

IBM and MS had split over their OS/2 development by  late1990. IBM went on 
to release OS/2 1.30 in '91 and OS/2 2.0 in '92 (2.10 in '93). The only 
things MS released in this timeframe was win 3.1 and 3.11 (the one written 
to break OS/2's ability to run win 3.x in its own virtual dos box - so the 
win app could crash all it liked and not bring down the OS).

I wish there was a WM half as good as OS/2's wps (Work Place Shell). I live 
in hope of IBM porting it (but I don't think it likely).


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