What's happening to OS/2 (Gordon Letwin, Usenet, 1995)(groups.google.com)
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What's happening to OS/2 (Gordon Letwin, Usenet, 1995)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.ms-windows.misc/msg/d710490b745d5e5e?&hl=en
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They also made classic "big corporation afraid to cannibalize it's old profits" mistake, and more arguably, they made some ickky design decisions in OS/2, like not going with fork/exec when starting a process, not having a good, clean definition of "a process",and some other things.
Why bring this up again now?