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From: Tim Daneliuk on 22 Apr 2010 19:49
On 4/22/2010 6:09 PM, Indi wrote:
> On 2010-04-22, Tim Daneliuk <tundra(a)tundraware.com> wrote:
>>
>> There was essentially nothing commercially available that could have
>> done what was needed at the time Win 1.x was released.
>
> That's very silly. Win 1.x was a huge failure, and no-one used it.
> By the time windows became semi-usable there was OS/2 -- a *vastly*
> superior OS. I know you claim you were there and all but it seems to
> me you don't really know your history.
>

A fair point, but OS/2 wasn't truly a GUI driven environment and THAT
was the future, for better or worse. (I use GUIs to run multiple
xterms ;)

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