On Wed, June 13, 2007 12:24 pm, Paul G. Allen wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 21:25 -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote: > >> >> > Then OS/2 came out. But Microsoft's FUD went into high gear to make >> > people believe that a few months later Windows 94 (IIRC) would blow >> the >> > doors off of OS/2 and caused everyone to hold off. A few months >> turned >> > into several, and Windows 94 was in danger of turning into Windows 96. >> > But by the time it was finally released, it was called Windows 95 >> > (barely). And it barely held a candle to OS/2. OS/2 was solid. >> >> I never could run OS/2 on my hardware. My 386 was too weak, and OS/2 >> ran like a dog. A friend of mine had a faster system, and he loved >> OS/2. >> >> I found it interesting that OS/2 was a joint M$/IBM project. > > Early on it was a joint project, then M$ went and came out with NT (both > used the same file system). As for the Win vs OS/2 battle, IBM lost only > because M$ threatened them. It came out in the DoJ case against M$ that > M$ told IBM that if they pushed OS/2 hard on the marketing front, M$ > would cancel IBM's Windows licensing. IBM decided they could not take > the hit in revenues that would cause. IBM more or less put OS/2 on the > back burner and only really marketed it to their top corporate customers > (there was a time that nearly all banks used it for their ATMs). > > I liked OS/2 Warp 4 and VoiceType as I could navigate the entire system > without ever touching the keyboard or mouse. It also ran faster than > Windows, worked great on our production line at TV/COMM, had far better > multitasking (it was a true preemptive system), and was the first object > oriented OS (maybe it's still the only one?) designed that way from the > ground up. > > If IBM had continued to support it, improve it, and update it as Linux > has been, I would be running OS/2 today. > > PGA
Are you aware that there is a San Diego OS/2 UG? And that you are a member already by virtue of being a member of KPLUG? Yet another invisible benefit brought to you by the San Diego Computer Society. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
