Have they given up?

[Brian Morrison]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 08:17:13 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>Thursday, April 13, 2000, 8:00:37 AM, Brian wrote:
>> OS/2 was an option for preload on many IBM machines up to about 1996 or
>> so.
>
>    Which was advertised how much?

Not much, but the dedicated few knew about it.

>
>> Yes, they did start to block things that would have helped OS/2, that was
>> because of the constant internal fight between the PC Co and PSP.
>
>    And that lead to the demise of the GDK?  I don't think so.

No, I doubt it too, but I'm sure that pressure was applied in one form
or another.

>
>    And to continue the thread that IBM wants to kill OS/2:
>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/12/2312251&mode=thread

Yeah, well, I'll stop using it when they pry the mouse and keyboard out
of my cold dead hands...

-- 
Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk
              do you know how far this has gone?
               just how damaged have I become?
                                      'Even Deeper' by Nine Inch Nails