[LINUX_Newbies] Re: New to Linux

 

--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, dvdpst <dvdposton@...> wrote:
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> Oh Robert. Another clue that made me think you never ran OS/2 was MICROSOFT
> never made it. IBM DID.

"The PC-AT was supposed to be able to do multitasking, and some IBM publicity photos even showed it connected to two dumb terminals. IBM had contracted Microsoft to create the first multitasking OS for the PC, but Bill Gates really did not want to do this for the 80286 processor. He publicly called the 80286 "brain dead" and constantly attempted to turn IBM away from creating OS/2 for the 80286 and to jump instead to the 80386 which was then under development at Intel."

http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/os2history.html

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