Germany was the only country that ever went for OS/2 in a big way. I carried on with OS/2 for a while, but what killed it for me was the lack of apps. REXX and VisualAge were great, though.
-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Lösel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 14 January 2009 21:36 To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Are you feeling special? Look for www.ecomstation.com OS2 is living! Am 14.01.2009 um 22:23 schrieb Philip Sheard: > Was that the 2.99 beta? OS/2 was indeed a lot better than Windows, > but it > was not to be. > > It was not down to Microsoft, though. They did not indulge in any > more dirty > tricks than one would expect, from a company in their position. IBM > did it > all by themselves. We were phenomenally incompetent. > > IMO the biggest single factor was the cartel on RAM memory. At the > time > manufacturers were all charging a whopping $25 per megabyte. OS/2 > needed 8MB > to run comfortably, but Windows 3 was happy with 4MB. And the > leading member > of the cartel was... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kent Loobey [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 14 January 2009 18:25 > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Re: Are you feeling special? > > On Wednesday 14 January 2009 02:45:45 you wrote: >> Palm is making the same mistake that IBM did. In a previous >> incarnation I >> was head of OS/2 evangelization for IBM EMEA (yes, I am a very old >> guy). I >> helped to set up devcon, but by then it was already too late. >> Almost no >> consumer software was ever developed for OS/2. Microsoft are crap >> developers themselves, but they sure know how to encourage other > people. > > I'm an old guy too. I was in the OS/2 beta program. I loved OS/2 > and was > really bummed when it didn't prevail in the market place. > > Microsoft fights dirty but for some reason the general public > doesn't notice > or > doesn't care. > > So we get crap from MS. > > > -- > For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to > unsubscribe, > please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/ > > > -- > For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to > unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/ > forums/ -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/ -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
