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Re: Blue Screen Python

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Date 2012-09-23 00:10 +1000
Subject Re: Blue Screen Python
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.1079.1348323012.27098.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> As per their partnership agreement, IBM took over development of OS/2
> version 2 while Microsoft worked on developing version 3. OS/2 2.0 was
> significantly improved over the 1.x series.
>
> Then Microsoft reneged on the agreement to release OS/2 version 3, and
> instead re-badged it as Windows NT. One might say there was a little bit
> of bad blood over this, especially as IBM had good reason to think that
> Microsoft had been spending IBM's money on NT.

And ever since then, Microsoft's been doing its best to kill OS/2 off.
By the look of the database server sitting next to me, and the clients
scattered throughout the building, it seems they have yet to
succeed...

OS/2 and Linux interoperate quite happily, too. Standards FTW.

ChrisA

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Blue Screen Python mikcec82 <michele.cecere@gmail.com> - 2012-09-21 07:04 -0700
  Re: Blue Screen Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-09-22 00:29 +1000
  Re: Blue Screen Python Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-09-21 15:14 +0000
    Re: Blue Screen Python Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2012-09-21 16:01 +0000
      Re: Blue Screen Python Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2012-09-21 16:02 +0000
      Re: Blue Screen Python Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-09-21 18:47 -0400
        Re: Blue Screen Python Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2012-09-22 10:53 +0000
          Re: Blue Screen Python Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-09-22 07:44 -0400
            Re: Blue Screen Python 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-09-22 05:19 -0700
            Re: Blue Screen Python 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-09-22 05:19 -0700
            Re: Blue Screen Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-09-22 13:07 +0000
              Re: Blue Screen Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-09-23 00:10 +1000
                Re: Blue Screen Python 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-09-23 04:17 -0700
                Re: Blue Screen Python 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-09-23 04:17 -0700
          Re: Blue Screen Python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-09-22 13:53 +0100
  Re: Blue Screen Python mikcec82 <michele.cecere@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 00:37 -0700
    Re: Blue Screen Python Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> - 2012-10-09 12:32 +0200
  Re: Blue Screen Python mikcec82 <michele.cecere@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 05:10 -0700
  Re: Blue Screen Python mikcec82 <michele.cecere@gmail.com> - 2012-10-22 06:15 -0700

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