Our office still runs a Lanier box running OS2 for dictation services.
Runs great, though we worry about what happens when it finally dies.
Philip Sheard wrote:
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.
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