David Maynard writes:

Well, they did, in fact, eventually tout that OS/2 would 'run Windows
software' which, in market terms, is tantamount to declaring Windows 'the
standard'. And then one asks, why not just get 'the real thing'?

Yup. I tell Linux users the same thing. And a lot of the older Linux
users were OS/2 fanatics before Linux came along. They can't _both_
be "the best operating system ever written."

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