GeoWorks! AOL used to run on that. I remember because I got my first modem with an AOL subscription box from Babbages and everything was running under GeoWorks. Very pretty.
At 09:32 PM 5/31/2003 -0500, you wrote: >As I recall OS/2 was written for IBM by Microsoft. > >Seems particularly interesting to me that multithreading and >preemptive multitasking were well established around 1980 in the >VAX/VMS line from Digital, and at a similar time in Unix. The >VAX had hardware access control and paging, so our VAX-11/780 >ran well for some years for a few users at a time with only 1/2 MB >of physical memory. We increased the memory as the operating >system got bloated enough to demand it. > >DOS reminded me of the Kludge Monitor for the IBM 7044 back >in the 1960s. It could load a job, turn over control to the job, >and when the job completed, aborted, or timed out, reload itself. >Later versions did do a bit more. > >There was another graphical operating system that beat Windows >3.1 hands down in a head to head competition at HAL-PC in >Houston I attended. Was the name GeoWorks or something like >that? > >Choppy > >At 02:14 AM 5/31/03 -0500, you wrote: > >>I came across this ( >>http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/os2/faq/os2faq-toc.html ) site on the web. >>If you want to know about OS/2 it might interest you. I didn't know much >>about OS/2-- my previous knowledge of OS/2 was limited to ---"OS/2 is a >>superior OS than M$ Window$". But this article tells more about OS/2. >> >>Below is a portion of what the article said about OS/2. > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting http://www.puryear-it.com
