On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 03:24:45PM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > > Anyone remembers OS/2? I think that one important reason why it failed > (among admittedly many others) is that many developers didn't see any > need to write software for it. I've heard/read many times that an OS/2 > version wasn't necessary as people can run the windows software almost > just as well.
I remember in DOS 3.x days buying some DOS programming bible, by Ray Duncan I think, similar to Norton's but better. It had a whole section on how to code so that it would be easy to port to OS/2 when it came out. Not a word about windoze though... shame the prediction was not more accurate. I do have a set of OS/2 floppies lying around somewhere, but I've never actually used them... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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