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“I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time,” Bill Gates said in 1987.

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SOURCE: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertszczerba/2015/01/05/15-worst-tech-predictions-of-all-time/#7915a6901299

1966: “Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop.” — Time Magazine.

1981: “Cellular phones will absolutely not replace local wire systems.” — Marty Cooper, inventor.

1995: “I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.” — Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com.

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“I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time,” Bill Gates said in 1987.

My uncle won awards for the team that sold OS/2 to China. He also managed IBM PC manufacturing. He still lives well in Boca.

[MarkL]

OS/2 was a fantastic operating system, compared to MS DOS, but the problem was the hardware wasn't able to take advantage of the software technology. And while MS OS/2 was pretty kludgy, IBM's OS/2 v2 was a spectacular OS, which saw AS400 minicomputers as direct network peers. But again, the hardware technology just wasn't available to take advantage of the software. Unix had the same problem.

Mark