The Idiot Piper: OS/2 and IBM
Merrill R. Chapman · Apress eBooks · 2003
Almost from the moment IBM signed its first contract to use MS-DOS with the original IBM PC, the company began planning to replace the Microsoft OS with something else. Even by the standards of the time, DOS was regarded by many as a “toy” OS. It was a given that IBM would replace it with a more serious system as the PC market grew and developed. The question everyone was asking was “With what?” These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.