top | item 38239471 (no title) minimaul | 2 years ago I guess you can also draw similarities to the MS/IBM joint venture that was OS/2, but that actually released products - even if MS dumped it for NT. discuss order hn newest lstodd|2 years ago Oh, OS/2 Warp was fine. I even had it as my default OS for a while back then. EricE|2 years ago Team OS/2 Baby! I still wish I had the salmon polo from the Warp comdex push. p_l|2 years ago MS/IBM joint venture failed through Windows 3.0, which in turn apparently was kickstarted by one person in the company. pjmlp|2 years ago Yes, if I am not mistaken, this is one of the books that tells which person was it."Undocumented Windows: A Programmers Guide to Reserved Microsoft Windows Api Functions (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series/Book and Disk"https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/0201608340Pity as SOM was much better alternative than COM, and OS/2 in general.However that wasn't the only issue that nailed OS/2's destiny, higher hardware resources and lack of proper management direction from IBM side also played a big role.
lstodd|2 years ago Oh, OS/2 Warp was fine. I even had it as my default OS for a while back then. EricE|2 years ago Team OS/2 Baby! I still wish I had the salmon polo from the Warp comdex push.
p_l|2 years ago MS/IBM joint venture failed through Windows 3.0, which in turn apparently was kickstarted by one person in the company. pjmlp|2 years ago Yes, if I am not mistaken, this is one of the books that tells which person was it."Undocumented Windows: A Programmers Guide to Reserved Microsoft Windows Api Functions (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series/Book and Disk"https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/0201608340Pity as SOM was much better alternative than COM, and OS/2 in general.However that wasn't the only issue that nailed OS/2's destiny, higher hardware resources and lack of proper management direction from IBM side also played a big role.
pjmlp|2 years ago Yes, if I am not mistaken, this is one of the books that tells which person was it."Undocumented Windows: A Programmers Guide to Reserved Microsoft Windows Api Functions (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series/Book and Disk"https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/0201608340Pity as SOM was much better alternative than COM, and OS/2 in general.However that wasn't the only issue that nailed OS/2's destiny, higher hardware resources and lack of proper management direction from IBM side also played a big role.
lstodd|2 years ago
EricE|2 years ago
p_l|2 years ago
pjmlp|2 years ago
"Undocumented Windows: A Programmers Guide to Reserved Microsoft Windows Api Functions (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series/Book and Disk"
https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/0201608340
Pity as SOM was much better alternative than COM, and OS/2 in general.
However that wasn't the only issue that nailed OS/2's destiny, higher hardware resources and lack of proper management direction from IBM side also played a big role.