Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???

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From: Liuyu
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 04:05

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quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Tony Quan) writes:

>In article <1992Aug28.180020.17109@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:

>>     OK, please don't interpret this as a bash on IBM, as Microsoft
>>corporate policy, or as anything more than a gut reaction to reading
>>this text.
>>
>>     This really gives me the willies.  Is IBM only going to support
>>OS/2 on IBM hardware?  And, if so, what would be the implications if
>>OS/2 were to dominate the PC operating system market?
>>

>This is a silly post.  Everyone knows that IBM supports OS/2 on all
>PC-compatible hardware and offers a money-back guarantee if they can't
>get it to work on your hardware.  Will Microsoft give me my money back
>if I can't get Windows 3.1 or NT to work on my hardware?  Microsoftians
>should check up on their facts before posting...

I don't think it's silly. Not everyone knows IBM doesn't support the standard
mono graphics Hercules card when almost every other software companies write
their own Herc driver for their software. IBM expects Hercules to write it.
Does IBM write VGA driver for other software, ie wordperfect, lotus, Windows,
and bunch of others? Does these companies expect IBM to write drivers for them
since it's IBM's hardware? Of course not. VGA is a standard so is Hercules.
I don't think IBM wanted to support a standard from other vendors.
I think you should check the facts out first.

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