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Last Mile

Top 11 Ways the world would be different if OS/2 had won the operating systems race

11. PCs would be beige

10. With no bugs, legal troubles and vaporware to write about, the tech press would be reduced to a single, one-page monthly newsletter

9. BSOD would be BBSOD (Big Blue Screen of Death)

8. An army of IBM Certified Config.sys Engineers (ICCE) would have emerged

7. Networks would run SNA instead of IP

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