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Re: Too late! Window hasta la vista 5308 is now fully operational.
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Erik Funkenbusch |
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Re: Too late! Window hasta la vista 5308 is now fully operational. |
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Sat, 4 Mar 2006 16:16:35 -0600 |
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On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:01:59 -0500, Stuart Krivis wrote:
>>Chicago was announced in 1993, and it was expected to ship in late 1994.
>>It slipped to August 1995. Windows 95 was not meant to compete with Unix.
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> If I remember, some of the promised features never showed up either.
> The same thing happened with Cairo, and also Longhorn.
Such as? I don't know of any promised feature of Chicago that didn't ship.
>>took for OS/2. Windows 3.1 was designed as a gateway from DOS to OS/2, and
>>probably would have been successful if IBM had not grown jealous of the
>>success of Windows and sabotaged OS/2 at every turn.
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> Your interpretation of events is as bizarre as Rex's. Where do you get
> this stuff?
>From the lead architect of OS/2 in his usenet posting on the subject.