[rescue] OS/2 anyone?

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Tue Jun 17 19:58:19 CDT 2003


On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 07:44:52PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> Marketing.  Their ads sucked.  They tried to push it off as "cool"
> instead of "runs your business and moves big rocks".  The IBM PC Company
> didn't have the balls to load it -instead- of 'doze on systems.  They'd
> load both, set the system to boot DOS/'doze, and disable the boot
> manager, so most people didn't even know they had it installed.


Gods.  Who was responsible for THAT piece of rampant stupidity?


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