IBM’s new Personal System/2 and its OS/2 operating system have gone down like a lead balloon with the Japanese software industry, which shows no inclination whatsoever to develop applications for it: a survey of 80 software developers conducted by the Japan Personal Computer Software Association evinced comments such as development of software for PS/2 will be difficult because of the open system architecture in which only the interface is disclosed and the PS/2 excludes third parties through copyright laws because OS/2 conforms to System Applications Architecture, IBM’s own application software standard; seems IBM has a big educational job on its hands, because if PS/2 is to succeed, it will need all the applications it can get.
