Re: Currant Bun

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From: mike Mike Dickson
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 00:00

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In article <85tnm5$qrp$4@quince.news.easynet.net> trevor@easynet.co.uk wrote...

> OS/2 was much better than Windows, but the marketing machine that was
> IBM fell to the might of Microsoft's marketing and the foothold they
> had on all DOS/Windows users.

We still do development work for OS/2, but the market is limited to
South America or some small parts of the Far East. Most of the problem
with OS/2 was that IBM failed to market it, period.

Mike Dickson, Black Cat Software Factory, Edinburgh, Scotland
fax 0131-665-1298 - Columnated Ruins Domino - Mellotron M400 #996

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From: mike@blackcat..demon..co..uk (Mike Dickson)
Subject: Re: Currant Bun
Date: 2000/01/17
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