Reminds of the days (long long ago in a galaxy far far away) when MS was battling to make Windows 3.0 the destop standard against IBM's OS2.
Win 3.0 suffured huge amounts of suckage cause it was released buggy as all hell in an unfortunatley successful attempt to win the market through sheer volume of sales by hype. Win 3.0 was a 16 bit DOS shell and was responsible for coining the phrase the blue screen of death (BSOD). Except in Win3's case, it was death, not an inconveniece. No protection from one program to another, they all shared one giant memory pool and if one died, everything died.
OS2 in contrast was a robust 32 bit operating system, superior in every way except for the marketing push that IBM never made. Since IBM held it until it was a viable product (V3 code named Warp) they were so far behind the market curve they could never catch up.
Meanwhile, MS introduced a less buggy Win 3.1 about 3 months later which let you almost work effieiently throughout the day with only a few BSODs.
The rest is history. Windows dominates, and OS2 is no where to be seen in the consumer market.
Hopefully, the same result is not repeated with the ATI substandard hardware just because it came out sooner.
Not that I'm an nVidia fan boy or anything lol nVidia products just seem to work with far less frustration
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