I was an avid OS/2 user at one time, until technology moved on and the logical switch for most OS/2 users was Linux.
Your thoughts on using Win3.1 and OS/2 are interesting...except that Win3.1 was known to run better under OS/2. The reason was problem because IBM did a work-around for the bugs that existed (or corrected them in the blue box version). Thus I rarely if ever booted into DOS+Win3.1 The stable solution was almost inevitably run Win3.1 under OS/2. And the most stable was the old blue box version of course, instead of having to install Win3.1 separately and have OS/2 install and look for it. On 08-Nov-2003 Christian Schnobrich wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 00:52, David Millet wrote: > >> > >> Or not until wine begins running these and every windoze app that >> everyone uses flawlessly, which hopefully happens soon. > > Nooooo! > please. > > Anyone remembers OS/2? I think that one important reason why it failed > (among admittedly many others) is that many developers didn't see any > need to write software for it. I've heard/read many times that an OS/2 > version wasn't necessary as people can run the windows software almost > just as well. > In the end, I hardly ever booted into OS/2, because there I'd not only > have to deal with the issues of Win31 software, but with the problems of > running them under an alien system as well. > > In the same way, I wouldn't use Linux if I had to run 90% of the > applications through wine. Not even if it were 'only' 20%... but as > things are, Linux natively offers almost all I need, and that's why I > consider it to be a good alternative. > > Wine is a necessary crutch, suitable to run the one or two apps that are > not (yet?) available for Linux. But in my eyes it will be no solution to > improve the crutch. On the contrary, having a really good wine might > even be dangerous. > At any rate, I think it's a strange philosphy to hope that a workaround > should become the actual solution. > > cu, > Schnobs > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------- Arlen Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "I've seen the forgeries I've sent out." -- John F. Haugh II ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), about forging net news articles This message was sent by XFmail (Linux) -o) /\\ _\_v The penguins are coming... the penguins are coming... ---------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]