Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

Jim Roland (jroland@roland.net)
Mon, 2 Jul 2001 04:19:53 -0500


Of course, being an OS/2 person myself before Slackware 1.2, I am still (to
this day) disappointed that OS/2 was abandoned by their own creators, IBM.
I'm waiting for IBM to abandon Linux in favor of their on Mainframe systems
again.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Murray" <graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 12:40 AM
Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

> "Jim Roland" <jroland@roland.net> writes:
>
> > What some people don't realize is that Microsoft *DID* do Unix a long
time
> > ago, they were even into OS/2 Development. :-)
>
> And they annoyed not just a few application vendors when just a few
> months after giving the message "Go with OS/2, it is the way forward",
> they abandoned it in favour of NT.
>
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