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New Well, no argument on one issue
IBM certainly did piss away a huge advantage.

Note that there was one major external factor; the OEM agreements that Compaq et. al. had with MSFT. In short, MSFT had a complete lock on the main means of distribution extant at the time. I know some folks at IBM that tried really hard to break that lock, but they were unable to do so.
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New I remember Compaq used to have a white paper on their site
on why Compaq systems were the best to run OS/2 on. And yet, you never could buy a Compaq preloaded with OS/2.

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Found it, [link|http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/techpubs/whitepapers/ecg1240798.html|Compaq: The Premier OS/2 Platform]
Darrell Spice, Jr.                      [link|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
     It's still not making much sense. - (Another Scott) - (5)
         Re: It's still not making much sense. - (deSitter) - (4)
             On what basis for comparison? - (jake123) - (3)
                 Re: On what basis for comparison? - (deSitter) - (2)
                     Well, no argument on one issue - (jake123) - (1)
                         I remember Compaq used to have a white paper on their site - (SpiceWare)

There is such a thing as dinner plates and what goes on them is mightily disappointing.
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