Subj : Re: OS/2
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Jun 21 2025 08:58:39

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 Ni>   Re: Re: OS/2
 Ni>   By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Fri Jun 20 2025 07:28 am

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

 Ni> Did they?  I remember buying a boxed copy of OS/2 at my local Egghead
 Ni> Software and installing it and using it on my PC without a problem.  I
 Ni> didn't need to have a service contract with IBM.

 Not that you'd need the contract, but if you were a business customer
 and ran into an issue, you'd have a couple of guys in dark suits and
 white shirts offering to help. In a way, I wonder if that hampered the
 user-friendly aspects of OS/2, as they didn't know how to sell to
 home/personal users back then.

 Not that I minded, the guys in dark suits usually ended up taking us to
 lunch at a much nicer place than I could have afforded back then.






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

 Ni> Still, there could be software running in the background, and without
 Ni> good multi-tasking, the system could be unstable.

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