offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11

[Zane H. Healy]

> I do recall (more vividly than I care to, as it still makes my blood 
> boil) one aspect of the  OS/2-NT charade.   Microsoft solicited and 
> accepted pre-release subscriptions (about $3K each) from  OS/2 
> developers for the "new" OS/2 that was going to be released Real Soon 
> Now.  After they had everyone's money, M$ turned around and said that 
> they weren't going to do OS/2, but rather Something Better and that 
> they would be supplying that instead (NT 3.1).  IIRC, they nearly had 
> a lynch mob headed toward Redmond screaming for BillG's corpse.  M$ 
> did relent and refunded the advance payment to those who screamed 
> loudest.  Doubtless, quite a number of people got stuck with a dog of 
> an operating system that they didn't ask for an didn't want.   I 
> don't think NT really caught on until about 3.51.

Part of why I do my best to avoid Microsoft products (other than MS Office)
is due to Visual Basic V1.0.  Both the box and the documenation in it that I
purchased said that Windows and OS/2 were supported.  While I felt Visual
Basic V1.0 was a terrific product, it signaled the end of Microsoft OS's as
my primary OS, and eventually contributed to my buying my first Mac.

Zane