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A switcher who doesnt hate Windows? Wow, lol
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<blockquote data-quote="Zoolook" data-source="post: 562176" data-attributes="member: 21101"><p>Well... in the beginning there was this company called IBM and they licensed this little program called DOS from this nothign company called MS. All the other computer manufacturers wanted to make IBM clones, and MS charged these companies to use DOS in their machines and made loads of cash.</p><p></p><p>In the late 1980's, IBM realised where this was going and started creating OS/2, which was there followup to DOS. IBM got into trouble when making OS/2 and so MS actually sent developers to help them (in the UK as it happens). </p><p> MS publically supported OS/2, whilst secretly working on a protected mode version of DOS, later NT (Windows 1.0 and 2.0 were just seen as toys). </p><p></p><p>When NT 3.1 was released in 1993, virtually everyone on DOS went that route - OS/2 was dead. In 1995, Win95 was released to replace DOS/Win 3.1 in the home and finally in 2001, XP unified NT and the DOS based Win 9x platforms.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zoolook, post: 562176, member: 21101"] Well... in the beginning there was this company called IBM and they licensed this little program called DOS from this nothign company called MS. All the other computer manufacturers wanted to make IBM clones, and MS charged these companies to use DOS in their machines and made loads of cash. In the late 1980's, IBM realised where this was going and started creating OS/2, which was there followup to DOS. IBM got into trouble when making OS/2 and so MS actually sent developers to help them (in the UK as it happens). MS publically supported OS/2, whilst secretly working on a protected mode version of DOS, later NT (Windows 1.0 and 2.0 were just seen as toys). When NT 3.1 was released in 1993, virtually everyone on DOS went that route - OS/2 was dead. In 1995, Win95 was released to replace DOS/Win 3.1 in the home and finally in 2001, XP unified NT and the DOS based Win 9x platforms. [/QUOTE]
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