In a message to Roger Nelson, Jack Stein wrote:

JS> supporting OS/2, right damn next to WIN 3.1.  In less than a year,
JS> WIN would have been crushed as useless junk, and everyone would have
JS> been running OS/2.  

JS> IBM DID NOT WANT THAT TO HAPPEN!  

As you know perfectly well, IBM *couldn't* let it happen.  Microsoft
threatened to withhold licenses from OEMs that preloaded or bundled OS/2,
threatened to withhold development tools from software producers who ported to 
OS/2, and threatened to cut off IBM altogether if they continued to press OS/2 
-- and they increased IBM's price for Windows %500 just to show they meant
business.  Big Blue would've been out of the PC business altogether in six
months.


       Cheers,
           Rachel

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