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I wouldn't be surprised at all if he'd said that; but you might be thinking of Gates who once said that OS/2 would be the operating system of the '90s. (He was wrong but he… still did all right in the end.)


It was MS themselves that turned the OS/2 2.0 project into an entire fiasco: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-...


I'm willing to give his prediction some credit. Windows and OS/2 are pretty closely related.


Excellent point. Ignoring marketing labels, his statement was as true as can be.


The Windows that is related to OS/2 is NT, which was very much not the operating system of the 90's, since it didn't go mainstream until NT5.x: Windows 2000 and Windows XP.




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