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Brooks Adair wrote:
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> In message <3330A67B.3E6F@NOSPAM.ibm.net> - Pieter Dubois
> <duboisp@NOSPAM.ibm.net>Wed, 19 Mar 1997 21:52:43 -0500 writes:
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> :>kiyoinc@ibm.net wrote:
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> :><snip>
> :>
> :>> >
> :>> >Sadly, I feel AIX will be the next IBM technology to get the cold shoudler, only
> :>> >because IBM managers have no real vision or focus for it.  I love AIX.  I love OS/2.
> :>>
> :>> Don't worry about AIX.  There's the SP2 and anyway AIX seems to be a
> :>> chameleon.  I'm waiting for someone to slap the workplace shell onto
> :>> AIX.
> 
> Don't know what happened to my last post. I just looked at it and my text was
> missing. Anyway, what I ment to say was my father saw the WPS running on AIX
> at some trade show, so its alreay been done.
> 
> Brooks

Brooks:

Your dad has seen a lot of cool stuff -- you would think though, IBM
would have listened to some of his suggestions to do something with it!
Hell, lets face it, he was one of the best damn software engineers IBM
Boca ever had. If it wasn't for him I don't think a single PC clone OS/2
user would be able to use the WPS beyond VGA resolution! (this is the
god honest truth, people!)

When IBM surplussed your dad and many other fine software engineers from
Boca, they sealed the fate of OS/2. That action in and of itself was the
icing on the cake for my choice to abandon OS/2 in favor of Windows NT.
It was the drive of people like your dad and other members of IBM's OS/2
engineering staff and their over and-above call of duty to promote the
system to hardware OEMs and ISV's that made OS/2 what it was, not from
the so-called strategic B.S. that went on in Armonk. 

Best Wishes


J.P.