Subj : Re: Best or Favorite OS for a BBS?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Nov 06 2025 09:13:32

  Re: Re: Best or Favorite OS for a BBS?
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to xbit on Thu Nov 06 2025 07:16 am

 PF> On period hardware, OS/2 rocked. Windows wasn't ready to mulitask DOS
 PF> cleanly for a long time. I ran a 486 with OS/2, and ran Maximus for DOS in
 PF> a DOS window. Worked pretty well - but then when I moved to all OS/2
 PF> binaries, I could do whatever I wanted on the system while the BBS was
 PF> running and I could barely tell it was there.

By the time I first tried OS/2 Warp around 1996, I'd have liked to see OS/2 continue and succeed. However, Windows was already so dominant at that time that it couldn't really be stopped.  I thought OS/2 Warp was more stable than Windows 95 and was able to run Windows 3.x and DOS software alongside OS/2 software without a hitch.

Nightfox
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