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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 14:59:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Schaeffer <mschaef@cs.utexas.edu> If IBM had really wanted to make a statement, they should have made it policy that if you buy an IBM x86 box, you get OS/2 period. By not doing that, they really undermined the image of the system. A friend of mine bought a Thinkpad (A 340 I think, but it's still a decent Thinkpad :) a while ago, and guess what was installed... MS Windows. Much as I agree with your other statements, I don't think I can go along with this one. My impression is that ThinkPads are one of the few products that are keeping IBM afloat (I don't think anyone would argue that OS/2 is). If I were an IBM exec, I wouldn't consider doing anything that would threaten the ThinkPad income -- and I suspect that refusing to offer Windows preloads would seriously impact their sales. It really is a shame, though. I use both OS/2 and Linux and like both of them very much. OS/2 has features -- its DOS/Windows emulation and its GUI -- that will be painful to do without if OS/2 stops being a viable operating system.