Reply to post: Re: Mistakes?

So long Lotus 1-2-3: IBM ceases support after over 30 years of code

Tom 13

Re: Mistakes?

OS/2 had two big problems.

1. Price - it simply wasn't affordable for the typical home user.

2. Too many disks for the install. IIRC the initial package came on 20 floppy disks. The odds of one of them going bad on you after the first install were just too high. Ironically Gates ridiculed IBM for the number of discs required then released 95 which required even more disks.

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