I used OS/2 for some years in the 1980s and 1990s. I really liked KEdit, Rexx, and PL/I, although PL/I did need collection classes as a data structure supported

I used OS/2 for some years in the 1980s and 1990s. I really liked KEdit, Rexx, and PL/I, although PL/I did need collection classes as a data structure supported by the language. I was always frustrated at IBM's lack of vision for, and work on, OS/2. When finally I couldn't get an OS/2 device driver for an Ethernet card, I changed over to Windows 2000, Windows ..., etc. and have never looked back at OS/2. I still use KEdit and Rexx, love both, except now use them on Windows. I still remember the remark by an IBM CEO, likely Gerstner, that "I'm not going to drop $1 billion in another desktop operating system for an Intel processor.". Okay, Lou. You just gave away all the billions of dollars Microsoft has made with Windows since your remark. When you said that, Lou, OS/2 and nearly all of the rest of IBM were ahead. On OS/2, you had the Mach kernel, SMP, DB/2, SNA, token ring, TCP/IP, TCP/IP on a chip, were making the chips for both Cisco and Juniper, were able to make X86 chips, had the lead in fabs, etc. You had it all. You had V/Net, an early example of what networking could do in a company, indeed, the world, but were too dumb to sell it. You stayed with SNA long after it was clear that end to end TCP/IP was much better. Then you threw it away. Threw it all away. Turned your back on the future of computing and walked away. Gee, you had Prodigy -- it could have been Facebook. You had a Web browser -- it could have been the dominant Web browser and had special integration with IBM Web servers, which you didn't really do. You could have had Windows Server and all of the Linux server business. You could have had all the relational database business. At one point, you actually ran ALL of the Internet, the whole thing. You gave it up. How big of a mistake was that? You could have had all of SAP -- you were way ahead in some of the crucial work. I know; I know: You were eager to respond to your major customers, give them what they insisted they wanted. They were all welcome to call except just don't call on a Wednesday because it ruined two weekends. IBM after WinTel: Biggest determined extraction of miserable defeat from the jaws of magnificent victory in the history of, what, the universe? Don't worry, Lou: Your record is safe. No one will ever make such a big mistake again! From at least the Intel 386 chip, there has been a big need for a really good operating system for X86. From all I can see from Microsoft, there is still a big need/opportunity.