[Info-vax] OT: IBM to buy Sun

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <176uZD2KcidF-pn2-rBxkV35odd8q at rikki.tavi.co.uk>,
	"Bob Eager" <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:44:45 UTC, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
> wrote:
> 
>> depending on your criteria, so does VMS.  OS/2 was a lame attempt
>> to mimic Microsoft.
> 
> In what way? Before you answer, remember that Microsoft were 
> co-developers.

Who backed out quickly when they saw that they were helping to develop
a product for someone else that would directly compete with their own.
And that competitor was IBM who actually had the power and drive to
push MS right out the door if they wanted to. (After all, if it weren't
for IBM, would MS ever have even existed?)

> 
> OS/2 2.x was different, of course. But none of the new stuff mimicked 
> anything that MS had done.

It looked the same.  It performed the same functions. It ran the same
software.  What is it they say about quacking like a duck?

bill
 

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