http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15305
The Inquirer has an interesting article entitled "The Structural Failures of Windows".
It covers some of history back when IBM and Microsoft were working together.
Noteable quotes from the article:-
"OS/2 was envisioned as the OS that could take advantage of multi-tasking and multi-threading to unite the worlds of Microsoft and IBM and Intel. This marriage didn't last very long, but it produced OS/2ùwhich for all of its madness, was unbelievably reliable."
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