Subj : Re: Am I the only one dum
To   : vorlon
From : ACMEBBS
Date : Wed Jun 08 2022 04:39:00

-=> On Wed Jun 8 16:40:00 2022, vorlon wrote to ACMEBBS <=-

 >  AC> Same here. Do have to say I had a subscription for 2 years to Arca
 >  AC> and was MUCH improved from the Warp 4 days.
 > I read all the hype etc, but just wasn't willing to spedn the money they
 > wanted (I think it came to over $150AUD).

Decided it wasn't worth the money ($58 US a year). At one time...I was spending a ton of time setting up the former BBS under Warp 5...but was a bear to get working compared to Windows.

 >  AC> A temp job I had for a day or two had me doing a move for Ford to
 >  AC> another location. Set up their systems in a new office & all of
 >  AC> them were running Token Ring with OS/2. Getting all the
 >  AC> workstations set up/running without any of the Windows issues blew
 >  AC> my mind...so got a copy of it when I could do so.
 > Yeah, it's a pitty that IBM shot them self's in the foot, and it also
 > didn't help that MS screwed the pooch at the same time. Win NT/2000 could
 > run OS/2 console programs for some time, untill MS removed that feature.

Very true. Blew away the corporate...but had no idea on how to deal with customers like us.
 
 >  > It was a joy to run, and very stable. It ran my BBS system for
 >  > many years.
 >  AC> That was 1 thing I was most shocked about...compared to Windows.
 >  AC> Never had any of the BS I would run into with older versions of
 >  AC> Windows.
 > The hardware took leaps and bounds, yet IBM didn't do anything to keep up
 > or market OS/2 correctly.

True. Even today...it was true of being a better DOS than DOS & making Win/OS/2 run like it should have. 

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