Subj : OS/2
To   : ogg
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Jun 20 2025 11:44:02

  Re: OS/2
  By: ogg to Nightfox on Fri Jun 20 2025 11:57 am

 og> I bought OS/2 Warp to run my Wildcat v4 bbs on.  It ran great. My problem
 og> was when I tried to upgrade to OS/2 v4, my mouse wouldn't work.  I called
 og> IBM and they wanted to charge me to get it working.  I dropped OS/2 and
 og> went to Desqview.

Weird that they wanted to charge you for that..  IBM may have shot themselves in the foot charging for that kind of thing. Also, if someone wanted to develop software for OS/2, I heard IBM also made the developer kit fairly expensive, which probably didn't help make it popular..

Nightfox
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