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Re:Microsoft’s shares sink by more than 10% by yuhong on Friday July 19, 2013 @09:57PM (#6074009)
Yes, but OS/2 2.0 was not going to be released in 1990 either so it would be stupid to abandon Windows 3.x immediately anyway. And as I mentioned in the comments, nothing prevents the two from coexisting for a few years with OS/2 2.x being compatible with Win3.x.
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Re:Microsoft’s shares sink by more than 10% by twoodfin on Friday July 19, 2013 @10:10PM (#6074053)
So which one should PC developers have targeted? Both? When one was selling at something like 20x the rate of the other?
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Re:Microsoft’s shares sink by more than 10% by yuhong on Friday July 19, 2013 @10:12PM (#6074056)
Win3.x (OS/2 2.x would be able to run Win3.x apps) or both, but this problem would only last a few years at most. Eventually 286s and <4MB of RAM would become obsolete. (And BTW OS/2 2.x not running well in 4MB of RAM had more to do with the Workplace Shell, MS had similar difficulties with the Explorer shell too)
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