offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11

I do recall (more vividly than I care to, as it still makes my blood boil) one aspect of the OS/2-NT charade. Microsoft solicited and accepted pre-release subscriptions (about $3K each) from OS/2 developers for the "new" OS/2 that was going to be released Real Soon Now. After they had everyone's money, M$ turned around and said that they weren't going to do OS/2, but rather Something Better and that they would be supplying that instead (NT 3.1). IIRC, they nearly had a lynch mob headed toward Redmond screaming for BillG's corpse. M$ did relent and refunded the advance payment to those who screamed loudest. Doubtless, quite a number of people got stuck with a dog of an operating system that they didn't ask for an didn't want. I don't think NT really caught on until about 3.51.