Finally, another subjective thesis:

If IBM had managed to push an affordable compiler into the market just three years earlier, OS/2 would be better positioned today.

At least for me, not programming OS/2 was not due to a lack of interest, but a lack of money. Both the freeware/shareware and the commercial market could have been WAY more vital with a "Turbo Pascal for OS/2". But this problem just matches the general problems with OS/2: the best technology around, but no interest in the mass market. :-(

BTW, some consolation for depressed OS/2 users can be found on the most excellent web page "OS/2 Headquarters" by Tom Nadeau at http://www.mindspring.com/~os2headquarters/ with the two excellent, witty series "Understanding Microsoft" and "Understanding IBM", plus more.

###### "Then was the land filled with the sound of much wailing and gnashing of teeth, for millions of people used OS/2 and knew that it was good. Yet the Lizard did harden his heart against them, and said, Nay, there is no demand for it."

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