Andrew, I worked with OS/2 in the early 90s and really liked it; I adopted it for my personal use as well. I really enjoyed reading the details you provided earlier. I have a hypothesis that when IBM tried to sell OS/2 (Warp) via a retail channel that it "hurt". A company whose DNA was channel sales would find dealing with retail issues to be entirely different from everything they knew. So, I speculate that there were enough people to felt (and argued) that OS/2 wasn't "worth it". Any thoughts you would care to share on that supposition would be appreciated.
_____ From: Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Glynn Sent: November 6, 2017 04:18 To: Any question about pharo is welcome Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earning a livingfromSmalltalk Thank you. I will see if I can get to it today or tomorrow. Andrew Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Davorin <mailto:davorin.rusevl...@gmail.com> Rusevljan Sent: Monday, November 6, 2017 4:17 AM To: Any question about pharo is <mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> welcome Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earning a livingfromSmalltalk On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Andrew Glynn <aglyn...@gmail.com> wrote: Your history is accurate, but there’s a few things I’d like to add, due to having been employed by IBM at exactly that period working specifically on VisualAge, not only for Smalltalk, but for Java, C++ and Cobol as well. (my NDA’s finally having expired also helps 😉). It’s not a correction or contradiction, but a complement to your description, providing a relevant but different perspective. Andrew, please find a way to write an article or blog post on this subject. It is priceless. davorin
