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echo: os2
to: Alan Ianson
from: Jean-Claude Dumas
date: 2015-07-29 08:32:54
subject: Still using OS/2?

AI> Not anymore, but I have fond memories of OS/2. I was 
 AI> looking at the ecs website not long ago wondering if I 
 AI> should do the deal. It's not inexpensive and you have 
 AI> to also pay more for each core.

Yea, if money was no object, it would be interesting. Makes one wonder why
it's so expensive...

 AI> Not useless at all, always was and still is good for 
 AI> FTN stuff. I can do all the FTN stuff on my linux box 
 AI> that I ever did on OS/2, but I have lost the ease of 
 AI> running dos doors that I had with OS/2.

True enought. DOS/Win support have been the strong as well as the weak
point of OS/2. And I believe that if IBM had released 2.0 with the UI of
1.3 instead of delaying it to get the WPS ready, things might have been
different. Windows 3.0 would may have been seen as a cheap OS/2 knockoff,
who knows? Timing is everything and MS did beat IBM.

It's all so easy in hindsight, isn'it? :)


JC


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