Date: 02/05/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

What if Microsoft's David Weise had not created the "protected mode" that let Windows programs blow past the 640K memory barrier back in the late 1980s?Larry Osterman suggests that OS/2 would have dominated Windows, that IBM would have dominated that ecosystem, and thus the Linux boom might never have happened. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=138&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog