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- From: sasghw@pica.unx.sas.com (Greg Wust)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Did microsoft really write an OS/2 "Terminator" crash prog?
- Keywords: terminator microsoft crash
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 18:17:55 GMT
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- In article <gershon.725175162@husc.harvard.edu>, gershon@husc11.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
- |> I read in a recent PC mag that Microsoft put together an OS/2 terminator
- |> program made specifically to crash OS/2. To which L. Reiswig responded
- |> "You have to stay up days and nights to write a program to crash OS/2.
- |> With Windows that comes right in the box."
- |>
- |> Anyone know anything more about this?
- |> (e.g. how they did it? what they did with the program? etc.)
- |>
- |> --Ethan Gershon
- |> gershon@husc.harvard.edu
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- YES. It was either Comdex last Fall or Spring. MS went into the IBM
- booth where OS/2 was up and running and began running their little
- crash program on every machine they were allowed to walk up to. And,
- PC Magazine (as did most all others including InfoWorld and PC World)
- wrote up about the childish little prank. What became worse was that
- IBM followed suit with its own little prank during a show presentation
- on OS/2 where they caused MS Windows to crash in a similar way. Made
- both of them look really silly (pretty stupid for big companies, huh?).
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- Why would you want the program??
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