On 12/12/21 4:10 am, Tom Brennan wrote:
People say OS/2 was far better in design, operation, and security than Windows, but it's gone now.
I worked a company in the 90s who used OS/2 Warp IMO it was terrible. Under the covers it had preemptive multi-tasking, memory protection etc so was a far better kernel then Windows but the GUI sucked. Major issues were that it would hang, crash and was totally unreliable. All the useful applications were written for Windows so when MS crippled compatibility OS/2 was effectively dead. Then Microsoft hired Bill Cutler from VMS to head the Windows NT team who knew a thing or two about fault tolerant operating systems. Windows NT was the final nail in the coffin for OS/2.
Sometimes the "best" system is simply what everybody else is using. Got to go now because I just put in a betamax.
Amen /\ Linux was no match for Unix systems such as AIX but because it was free and open source it exploded in popularity. Now it runs on billions of machines from mainframes to routers. Same for the C programming language which is fundamentally flawed but free compilers were made available so it became ubiquitous.
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