Doubt that Apricot Computers Plc would recount the events in quite the same way, but Martin Houston says that he turned from a senior systems programmer at Apricot into an entrepreneur, creating Houston Technology Ltd in Birmingham after Apricot made a sudden and rather strange management decision to redeploy all its Unix staff on OS/2 development: needless to say, the Unix staff were not impressed with the offer of retraining to something inferior to what they already knew; subsequently, this decision to back OS/2 caused the resignation of three quarters of the staff within six weeks and a subsequent sharp U-turn in favour of Unix.
