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From: jonka@microsoft.UUCP (Jonathan KAGLE)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Experience in Shopping for OS/2 (Long)
Summary: Don't ALWAYS blame Microsoft
Message-ID: <72732@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 91 00:49:01 GMT
References: <1991May29.062117.9353@midway.uchicago.edu> <11750015@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>
Reply-To: jonka@microsoft.UUCP (Jonathan KAGLE)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <11750015@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com> joeb@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Joe Barnhart) writes:
>Uh....  I'm ready to hop on the "nobody is marketing OS/2" bandwagon,
>but as I recall, IBM was only _supposed_ to sell OS/2 for IBM machines.
>Microsoft's job was to popularize OS/2 among other hardware vendors.

Microsoft treats OS/2 1.x just like it does MS-DOS; it licenses it through
hardware manufacturers.  Ever see any ads for MS-DOS?

       -Jonathan

P.S. These marketing strategies may change in the near future.