Subj : Still using OS/2?
To : Alan Ianson
From : Jean-Claude Dumas
Date : Wed Jul 29 2015 08:32 am
AI> Not anymore, but I have fond memories of OS/2. I was
AI> looking at the ecs website not long ago wondering if I
AI> should do the deal. It's not inexpensive and you have
AI> to also pay more for each core.
Yea, if money was no object, it would be interesting. Makes one wonder why it's
so expensive...
AI> Not useless at all, always was and still is good for
AI> FTN stuff. I can do all the FTN stuff on my linux box
AI> that I ever did on OS/2, but I have lost the ease of
AI> running dos doors that I had with OS/2.
True enought. DOS/Win support have been the strong as well as the weak point of
OS/2. And I believe that if IBM had released 2.0 with the UI of 1.3 instead of
delaying it to get the WPS ready, things might have been different. Windows 3.0
would may have been seen as a cheap OS/2 knockoff, who knows? Timing is
everything and MS did beat IBM.
