Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 11:09:04 -0700 From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <199704191809.LAA22926@kithrup.com> In-Reply-To: <15863.861457855.kithrup.freebsd.chat@time.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Sat, 19 Apr 1997 12:02:06 BST." <l03020907af7e55ac3bf5@[194.32.164.2]>
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In article <15863.861457855.kithrup.freebsd.chat@time.cdrom.com> Jordan writes: >Note that the underlying product was still an unholy P.O.S. (no >expansion of that acronym should be necessary) I've never liked point-of-sale terminals, myself. >(IBM >was still having schizophrenia problems with its OS/2 strategy I'd like to point out that OS/2's early problems stemmed from it being a uSoft product originally. But when Windows 3.0 took off (and 3.0.1 because actually usable by people), uSoft decided they did not want to deal with OS/2 anymore, and left it on IBM's doorstep. Which is kinda a pity -- the 286-centric OS/2 sucked dead blue donkeys%, but given that it came from uSoft, I'm not surprised. IBM did a good job of improving it, I always thought, a couple of years later. Sean. ----- % A hapence if you can identify th esource of that phrase.
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