On Feb 28, 2008, at 16:19, Doug Franklin wrote: > > Ahhhh, I /loved/ OS/2 Warp! I still have one of the coffee cups from > the product launch all these years ago. It literally ran my Windows > 3.1 > programs faster and more stably than Windows 3.1 ran them ... and it > was > more stable than Windows, overall, too. >
As a tech support person at Medtronic who was primarily responsible for supporting the programmer's department (all running WARP with EMacs as their programming environment), I don't miss OS/2 Warp one bit. Yes, it was better than Windows (tm) at the time, but in the department where I worked, we had 3 primary platforms and one secondary: 1. Sun OS (Unix) - stable as hell and didn't have to do anything with it. 2. OS/2 Warp - fiddly, stable, weird, arcane, but generally didn't crash if you threw enough CPU and RAM at it. 3. Windows95 (eeew). Not my area, thank goodness 4. MacOS (for the secretaries). We never had to help them with anything 'cos they just worked. (shudder) Thanks for the reminder that OS/2 existed. Bleah! But I do have to agree that it was solid in terms of running Windows apps. Documentation there was done with Adobe Framemaker and it was pretty stable. But oh so ugly. Kinda like Volvos - "They're Boxy, But They're Good!" -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
