For a while this programming language owned the business. Now it’s gone. Here’s today’s epsiode of What Ever Happened to…
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While we’re asking for our favorite “whatever happened to…” I’ll throw out my request for one on The Greatest PC Operating System of All Time… OS/2.
I really miss it and IBM was short sighted to give up on it and give it away to Serenity.
An Open Source OS/2 Warp, instead of Linux, would gain a huge acceptance. Bring Back Token Ring !!! (I’m kidding of course)
Microsoft forced IBM to give up OS/2, because IBM back then was a micro-computer manufacturer, and Bill’s Ultimatum was ditch OS/2 or else I won’t license MS Windows for IBM computers, and all your competitors will have MS Windows, so you will lose your market share.
As far as CBASIC is concerned, in the following statement
GOTO HELL
Real computer programmers see the word GOTO as the offensive command.
Real computer programmers see the word GOTO as the offensive command.
Heh. But then Dykstra was sometimes a moron.
I’d like to see him write an LR1 parser without using goto’s.
>ditch OS/2 or else I won’t license MS Windows for IBM computers
Cmon, I think everyone knows this is false. IBM was selling Windows and OS/2 machines at the same time. They dropped OS/2 because customers didn’t want it, especially after NT4. You could sell 10 copies at a top OS/2 software vendor and you would be in their top ten for the month. Maybe things would have been different if IBM hadn’t waited a year to put in their workplace shell and actually beaten Win 3.1 to market.
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You do realize that if OS/2 would have won the war, the damn thing won’t function properly or at all if your PC had components not made by IBM?