Subj : Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
To   : Vorlon
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue May 02 2023 13:25:24

  Re: Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
  By: Vorlon to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue May 02 2023 11:27 am

 PF>> I'd heard that Microsoft made it very easy for developers to get
 PF>> SDKs and develop on Windows, whereas OS/2 development tools were
 PF>> pricy and harder to get. That seemed to jibe with what I'd heard.

 Vo> Typical of MS,, screw the other guy over and make our product look better.

IMO that doesn't really seem like MS screwing the other guy.  MS just wanted to make it easy to develop software for their platform, which I think is understandable.  IBM was shooting themselves in the foot a bit by charging a lot for their SDKs for OS/2.

A better example of MS screwing the other guy to make their own product look better would be (from what I heard) making Windows 3.x not run on DR-DOS but it would run on MS-DOS.

Nightfox
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