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Re: An Amiga sidenote in history
« on: February 14, 2007, 03:56:05 AM »
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What reason do you think an OS backed by Big Blue, and stable, would cause so few people to write programs for it?


What I heard was that windows 3.0 was out and os/2 could run all the stuff under a deal with microsoft (the deal was they could have 3.0 runability) but then microsoft made windows 3.1 in order to kill os/2 from running windows stuff.

Then, os/2 warp was advertising like crazy all the cool features it had. So, microsoft announced that you could keep using windows stuff and have all those neat features if you got windows 95 instead of os/2 warp. So, people didn't go for warp and it died and like 5 years later windows 95 came out and to get the features you wanted you had to pay mega extra for the "plus" edition addons for windows 95.

tell me now that microsoft ain't evil.
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