Re: "Then why not just use something
"I couldn't purchase OS/2 for myself without buying a PS/2."
Commonly thought to be true, but it wasn't. I was running OS/2 on non-IBM hardware in 1989. In fact, I've been selling OS/2 solutions for over 30 years (nowadays it's EComStation and ArcaOS), and have never run it on true IBM hardware.