Subj : Re: OS/2
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Jun 20 2025 07:28:59

-=> Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Ni> Sometimes I wonder where we'd be today if OS/2 had become the dominant
 Ni> OS for PCs.  Or maybe even BeOS, though they initially started with
 Ni> their own PowerPC-based computers, and by the time they ported BeOS to
 Ni> x86, it was probably too late.  I thought BeOS had some crazy
 Ni> multi-tasking though, and I liked its UI - it was simple and looked
 Ni> like a piece of art.


 I liked both OSes, I think Macromedia tried to port some of their apps
 to Be, the tech support guys had a BeBox to play with.

 The problem with OS/2 was that it had a full services arm behind it. I
 often wondered if it wasn't as easy to use/install because IBM was
 expecting to have the customer to have a service contract with IBM.

 When I used OS/2 at work the first time, we had S/38 midrange
 computers, a couple of AS/400s, all PS/2 desktops and IBM token ring
 networking. I could call in a tech to assist if we ran into OS/2
 issues.

 I don't think it was until the internet came out that people really
 cared about multi-tasking; before that, Windows was really more of a UI
 for most people to run one GUI app at a time.





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