Comments on: The Great Redmond Photocopier http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/2008/11/05/the-great-redmond-photocopier/ The Leader In Technical News and Commentary Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:27:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Fcassia http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/2008/11/05/the-great-redmond-photocopier/comment-page-1/#comment-588 Fcassia Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:57:32 +0000 http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/?p=120#comment-588 You say: "That said, IBM joined the other lawsuits against Microsoft and OS/2 was no longer developed by Microsoft (IBM developed OS/2 3 and “Warp” 4 after Microsoft left)." You got the timinmg all wrong, buddy. Microsoft´s OS/2 was 16-bit OS/2 1.x. IBM and Microsoft parted ways BEFORE IBM created the first 32-bit OS/2 versioin, which included a new object-oriented desktop, the Workplace Shell, developed entirely in-house by IBM. That was OS/2 2.0, way long BEFORE WARP. OS/2 2.0 was released in April 1992. Then came OS/2 2.1, 2.1 "for windows" (which installed on top of DOS+Windows3.1, and OS/2 3.0 aka "Warp", in 1994. By then the memory footprint was reduced so that the OS could be used even in system with 4MB RAM (previous versions required 8megs or more, which at the time was a lot, because memory was hella expensive). Best FC You say: “That said, IBM joined the other lawsuits against Microsoft and OS/2 was no longer developed by Microsoft (IBM developed OS/2 3 and “Warp” 4 after Microsoft left).”

You got the timinmg all wrong, buddy. Microsoft´s OS/2 was 16-bit OS/2 1.x. IBM and Microsoft parted ways BEFORE IBM created the first 32-bit OS/2 versioin, which included a new object-oriented desktop, the Workplace Shell, developed entirely in-house by IBM. That was OS/2 2.0, way long BEFORE WARP. OS/2 2.0 was released in April 1992.

Then came OS/2 2.1, 2.1 “for windows” (which installed on top of DOS+Windows3.1, and OS/2 3.0 aka “Warp”, in 1994. By then the memory footprint was reduced so that the OS could be used even in system with 4MB RAM (previous versions required 8megs or more, which at the time was a lot, because memory was hella expensive).

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]]> By: contextfree http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/2008/11/05/the-great-redmond-photocopier/comment-page-1/#comment-568 contextfree Fri, 29 May 2009 23:30:00 +0000 http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/?p=120#comment-568 Oh, and M isn't object-oriented either! It's declarative. Oh, and M isn’t object-oriented either! It’s declarative.

]]> By: contextfree http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/2008/11/05/the-great-redmond-photocopier/comment-page-1/#comment-567 contextfree Fri, 29 May 2009 23:02:13 +0000 http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/?p=120#comment-567 Sorry for commenting late and all, but wtf. Oslo's M has exactly two things in common with MUMPS' M: the name, and that it's a formal language of some kind. Ditto Digital Mars' D. There's a vague resemblance to Date & Darwen's D if you squint. Where the hell did you get this? Some random comments from Slashdot? Sorry for commenting late and all, but wtf. Oslo’s M has exactly two things in common with MUMPS’ M: the name, and that it’s a formal language of some kind. Ditto Digital Mars’ D. There’s a vague resemblance to Date & Darwen’s D if you squint.

Where the hell did you get this? Some random comments from Slashdot?

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