How the OS/2 Flop Went On To Shape Modern Software

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By EditorDavidJan 5, 2025, 7:49 pm213 pts
"It's fair to say that by 1995, OS/2 was dead software walking," remembers a new article from the Register (which begins with a 1995 Usenet post from Gordon Letwin, Microsoft's lead architect on the OS/2 project). But the real question is why this Microsoft-IBM collaboration on a DOS-replacing operating system…

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