From: afn03257 AT freenet2 DOT afn DOT org (Daniel P Hudson) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: OpenDOS Date: 30 Jan 1997 04:29:07 GMT Lines: 36 Message-ID: <5cp82j$f1v@huron.eel.ufl.edu> References: <32EEBA66 DOT 335F AT cam DOT org> NNTP-Posting-Host: freenet2.afn.org NNTP-Posting-User: afn03257 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Tudor wrote: >Dan wrote: >> I don't mind legitimate complaints, but throwing a temper tantrum >>oven nothing urks me. >It is a known fact that M$ put code in their windoze applications to >crash OS/2 .This was in the early developing days, when IBM was trying >to make their own OS but they were missing native applications so they >were emulating windows applications. Your smoking the wrong end of the cigarette there man. Gates worked on OS/2 with IBM and then pulled out for windows. OS/2 was highly unstable, it didn't need any special code to make it crash. v2.x was much better and with proper hardware it never crashed running 3.x apps because they were windows, it did crash because of system violations, etc., note Win 3.x does that also, and quite often I might add. The only OS I have not run under a PC is CP/M and I've never seen a crash that was done purposefully to prevent the use of another product. NEVER! The whole idea is ludicrous. MS makes money if you buy Word to run under win 3.x or OS/2's emmulator. Gates isn't one to turn down money. I think you've been listening to the ANTI-MS KOOKS too long. They tried to convinve me the other day that WIN 95' trashes Linux partitions if found because one kook trashed the partition once. I got news for ya, Linux trashed my Dos partition 3 times, so would that mean GNU is implementing secret espionage like code in Linux? Get a grip! Every little screw-up that happens is not an MS plot to take over the world. Bugs happen, and while its easy to blame MS for them, the truth is IBM's first release of OS/2 was pure shit and not worth it weight in dirt. V2 is when OS/2 became a real OS with potential, and then IBM screwed up by not advertising. Then v3, and a little advertising, still no take off, its too late now, the next OS/2 will support WIN 95 and MS will stop supporting WIN 95 and start pushing WIN NT, watch it. However, rumor has it, I know some employees at IBM in Boca [just a 4 hour drive from me] that IBM may already be able to predict MS's next move and beat em' to the punch. We shall see. ;-)