I don't quite see what they might have needed either - BOOPSI was pure guess on my part after seeing how that link described it. My only contact with OS/2 was w

I don't quite see what they might have needed either - BOOPSI was pure guess on my part after seeing how that link described it. My only contact with OS/2 was work had one ps/2 tower with it. I used it a little, never encountered an API or compiler. In those days my experience was 95% Amiga, and just enough Windows to ensure that after Amiga my career went back to Unix. After Intuition and BOOPSI, even ARexx, Windows just seemed too primitive and too much like hard work to develop for. I do have some vague memory of IBM licensing something for OS/2 from the time. That weak reference was all search turned up. Quite a few links of people talking about it though, including a near duplicate of the conversation we're having on The Register. So if urban legend it definitely gained some legs somewhere. My CATS newsgroup archives, Devcon handouts and other stuff from that era are long gone. That's not very helpful, sorry. :)