On 11/12/2013 03:14 AM, John Williamson wrote:
William Sommerwerck wrote:
"sctvguy1" wrote in message ...
On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 16:05:27 -0800, William Sommerwerck wrote:

Were you working there when Bill Gates was using OS/2 on his
own desktop?

I was there during the period of OS/2's brief popularity.

Was OS/2 particularly crash prone, or are you referring to the fact
that it needed the Presentation Manager for a graphic interface?


I took it as more of a suggestion that the owner and creator of
Microsoft didn't want to use a Microsft OS on his own machine.

Of course, it could just have been research to find out just how bad
OS/2 was....


Creator of Microsoft? Gates helped write CPM, a little bit of BASIC.
Quick and Dirty Operating System was bought pretty much turnkey. Since
then it's been Bill and Steve as Mr and Mrs Pacman, gobbling up other
people's ideas.