Subj : OS/2
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Jun 12 2025 08:56:46

  Re: OS/2
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Thu Jun 12 2025 07:50 am

 PF> My board used to have a message base just for tech flame posts. We had
 PF> lots of OS/2 versus Amiga arguments on the board, sort of like watching
 PF> two kids fighting it out to see who's the baddest ass in the Physics club.

 > - Area: nirvana.tech.flame
 > ---------------------------------------------------
 > Msg#: 95
 > Date: 20 Jul 94 12:31:00
 > From: SAM UZI
 > To:   JOHN SMITH
 > Subj: OS from heaven
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > -=> The duffus John Smith said to the geek Sam Uzi <=-

 >  SU> it is the ONLY true 32-bit multi-threaded pre-emptive multi-tasking
 >  SU> OS around.

 >  JS> ...except for every single OS around that was written for non-Intel
 >  JS> CPUs.
 >  JS> All the neat shit that people claim for the latest hottest Intel
 >  JS> -- the stuff in your quote there -- is stuff that has always
 >  JS> been pretty much standard in the Motorola and Risc worlds.

 > sure, whatever... but OS/2 is THE BEST Operating System in the world,
 > can run circles around anything else, and it looks nicer, and will cook
 > your breakfast for you, and make your coffee, and has 3D-bordered
 > icons, and is nifty, and looks cool, and is True-Blue, and can run DOS
 > better than DOS, and will take out the garbage, and will get you chicks,
 > and has got a 438 Hemi duo-blaster twin quad super injection turbo
 > ...


There have been arguments as long as there have been online forums of some sort..  :)

Nightfox
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