Date:  Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:49:12 -0500
From:  madodel at ptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] Net: If Windows 3.0 had never been created...

From: outpostsysopDESPAM at earthlink.net 

I was reading this on /.  ( http://slashdot.org/ ) and it discusses how
OS/2 would have become the predominant OS if Windows 3.0 programs hadn't
been able to run in protected mode... here's the blurb from /. :

covertbadger writes "Larry Osterman said farewell yesterday to David
Weise, the developer he credits with getting applications to run in
protected mode on Windows 3.0, which led directly to Microsoft choosing to
push Windows instead of OS/2. Today he speculates on what the IT world
would be like if Weise had never completed this work. Windows 95 would
never have existed, OS/2 would be the de facto standard, and IBM would
never have put weight behind Linux because it had its own operating system
to push."

Url:  http://weblogs.asp.net/larryosterman/archive/2005/02/03/366493.aspx

From: Sean Dennis (outpostsysopDESPAM at earthlink.net)


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