On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
That reminds me of when I phoned IBM here in Ireland looking for software
support for their VM mainframe operating system not too many years later,
sometime in the early 1990s.  I spelled out every variation of the name
I could think of but they kept asking me what version of OS/2 I had.
I guess by then the circle had turned again.

Did they think that you were saying "P M"?
"PM" ("Presentation Manager") was the OS/2 equivalent of "Windows"

Tell them that you mean 'V' as in "Venus"  :-)

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