https://www.theregister.com/Print/2012/11/27/the_os_wars_os2.../ cites Big Blues: The Unmaking of IBM for some OS/2 sales figures in a passage otherwise talking about Windows 3.0: “IBM had moved just 600,000 copies of OS/2 in over three years [as of 1990] — of which 300,000 were ‘real’ sales — far fewer were actually in use”
edit: Minor typo in “This also suggests the price list here wasn't particularly current since it didn't include the IIx (September 1998)”, should be 1988.
> but the actual name TrueType appears nowhere in this presentation
>Sneaky Apple marketing considering (afaict) Windows was already outselling OS/2 even before the 1990 launch of Windows 3.0.
Yeah, but OS/2 was the heir apparent and what serious people used (well, they were all planning to, one day). Comparing themselves to OS/2 (and thus IBM, the object of all of Apple’s ire) would have been perceived as giving themselves an air of legitimacy in 1990.
Sure, a bunch of people are running that toy “not even an OS” Windows. Half of ‘em are probably on clones!
This was in the era of windows/286 and windows/386 where you’d get an app like Pagemaker that was shipped with basically a windows runtime that wrapped and booted one application.
Sneaky Apple marketing considering (afaict) Windows was already outselling OS/2 even before the 1990 launch of Windows 3.0.
https://books.google.com/books?id=uzsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT33&#... sez “Windows sales for 1988 — 1 million”
https://www.theregister.com/Print/2012/11/27/the_os_wars_os2.../ cites Big Blues: The Unmaking of IBM for some OS/2 sales figures in a passage otherwise talking about Windows 3.0: “IBM had moved just 600,000 copies of OS/2 in over three years [as of 1990] — of which 300,000 were ‘real’ sales — far fewer were actually in use”
edit: Minor typo in “This also suggests the price list here wasn't particularly current since it didn't include the IIx (September 1998)”, should be 1988.
> but the actual name TrueType appears nowhere in this presentation
I wonder what legal issues went on for this behind the scenes. If I'm reading USPTO correctly, IBM tried to trademark “truetype” in 1990 https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=74033404&caseSearchTy...
Great post — loved to see the System 7 alpha shots
Yeah, but OS/2 was the heir apparent and what serious people used (well, they were all planning to, one day). Comparing themselves to OS/2 (and thus IBM, the object of all of Apple’s ire) would have been perceived as giving themselves an air of legitimacy in 1990.
Sure, a bunch of people are running that toy “not even an OS” Windows. Half of ‘em are probably on clones!
That attitude changed really rapidly.