had a manager say his hospital was no longer looking at OS/2 because IBM was killing it.
The only lie i see here is "was". I seems to remember OS/2 for PS/2. Or was it IBM sales folks suggesting OS/2 might not run on non-IBM boxes?
I guess you are correct that IBM has done OS/2 harm but I still think lies and negative opinions from the press did more harm. Did you know that a PCWeek 'journalist' was the one who started the "OS/2 is being dropped by IBM" rumor? It was leaked in Europe in 1992 or 1993. This is the lie that stopped OS/2 in many sites WORLDWIDE (Colorado, USA from MY experience). PCWeeks' Mary Jo Foley was great at ending her OS/2 articles with either a 'Microsoft will have this or that, so OS/2 is irrelivent' or 'there are no applications so it really doesn't matter'.
We really need a few journals that are called "OSes and Apps", where NO operating system or application is favored.
Doug LaRue
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