Re: Boycott Microsoft Website

From: "Bren Lynne" <bren@interlog.com>

Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Gary Jones <GJones@manassa.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<lSU2jJAh9ERzMwJj@manassa.demon.co.uk>...
> In article <333CCCBA.1015@bellsouth.net>, Sean Gwizdak
> <wazm@bellsouth.net> writes
> 8<
> >OS/2 was marketed by IBM.  IBM is an arrogant company.  OS/2 had no
chance of
> >competing with Microsoft.
> >8
> Uhm. Windows and OS/2 share a common ancestry. Time was when MS and IBM
> collaborated on what became OS/2...(sorry to be pedantic).

Yeah, that's interesting.  I remember this old AVI I saw of Bill Gates
saying that OS/2 would be "the operating system of the 90s."

Funny how things change...

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References

Re: Boycott Microsoft Website
mcgrath@epx.cis.umn.edu (Michael David McGrath)
Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
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Re: Boycott Microsoft Website
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Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
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Sat, 29 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
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Sat, 29 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Boycott Microsoft Website
Gary Jones <GJones@manassa.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 04 Apr 1997 00:00:00 +0000