Little, Chris wrote:
A microkernel based OS/2 was ported to the POWER architecture. I've got a
book I bought at the _mall_ about it laying around somewhere.
WPOS, WorkPlace OS. Designed by Mach kernel theoreticians, it never ran fast
enough to be released. A warehouse of PowerPC's which had sat waiting
for WPOS
to be finished was junked because the PowerPC's were outmoded before
WPOS was
done.
Bill Stephens wrote:
Sigh ... I heard that OS/2 WARP was pretty slick ... seems
like it should have been worth saving and remarketing.
I remember standing in the halls at IBM and watching a live broadcast of
one of Lou Gerstner's sessions addressing and interacting with IBM'ers.
He received one of the usual rude and insinuating questions from an
OS/2 loyalist about why IBM wasn't pushing OS/2 more.
"Well, you know," said Lou, "From the first day I came here, I heard all you
OS/2 believers had to say, so I said to myself, 'I have to find out what
this is all about.' I'm no computer novice, so I had them bring me a
shrink-wrapped package of OS/2 up in my office and I sat down to install
it. And, DAMN, that was hard to install!!"
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