I was the one on the other side of that bet (not under this name.) It was multiprocessing. I said OS/2 would be there first and he said NT would. I'm not sure who won but we were pissed off at each other enough by the end of it, with some weird threats having been made, that dinner was pretty much out of the question.
Odd that you would remember that. I thought I was probably the only one who did.
I was there as the 'melling'. Trolling the Internet was more fun when you didn't have to worry about down votes and karma. :-). I tried to stay reasonable but the OS/2 guys were rapid. Those were the days before Microsoft was "evil" and people rooted for them against IBM. It might be time to root for Microsoft again.
melling|10 years ago