Also having been there, my admittedly fading memory remembers OS/2 as doomed before Linux was really an function parity option. And OS/2 wasn't really put up a

Also having been there, my admittedly fading memory remembers OS/2 as doomed before Linux was really an function parity option. And OS/2 wasn't really put up as a alternative to Unix (certainly IBM didn't want to cannibalize AIX); rather it was the server OS and upgrade to Windows that Microsoft customers were screaming for. Microsoft effectively killed off OS/2 the day they said "forget about OS/2...what you really wan't is this nifty thing we've got cooking called NT", no matter the effort IBM continued to pour into it.