Subj : Re: OS/2 anyone.
To : All
From : Bob Campbell
Date : Sat Dec 29 2012 11:07 am
On 11/16/12 04:55 am, dccxxvii wrote:
> Now that the troll tholen has seemingly departed and the plethora of
> junk he generated has died down, would anyone actually interested in
> OS/2 like to give me reasons why I might want use it in preference to
> other OS's?
There is really no reason to use OS/2 as your only computer these days.
Unless you like banging your head against the wall.
However, it remains an interesting thing to play with. The challenge
of getting it to do anything useful is fun - assuming you like
challenges. For example, I just got the networking going, and got
Thunderbird running here.
I used to use OS/2 all the time, but that was 20 years ago. It got me
thru the Windows 3.0/3.1 era. OS/2 2.1 and 3.0 ran Win 3.1 and DOS apps
better than Win 3.1 and DOS. When Win 95 and NT 4 became available, I
abandoned OS/2 since it was clear IBM was also. When Will Zachmann
came to the same conclusion a year or so later, everyone knew it was all
over for OS/2.
These days OS/2 is little more than a historical curiosity. Along with
others like the many Unix OSes (Coherent, Xenix etc. among many others I
had), the Apple Lisa, the Apple ///, TRS-80s and the dozen or so OSes
they had, CPM etc. etc.
All gone, some nearly forgotten.
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