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'Developers have lost hope Microsoft will do the right thing'... Redmond urged to make WinUI cross-platform

jake Silver badge

Re: "Then why not just use something

"I couldn't purchase OS/2 for myself without buying a PS/2."

Commonly thought to be true, but it wasn't. I was running OS/2 on non-IBM hardware in 1989. In fact, I've been selling OS/2 solutions for over 30 years (nowadays it's EComStation and ArcaOS), and have never run it on true IBM hardware.

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