Subj : Re: Am I the only one dum
To   : ACMEBBS
From : vorlon
Date : Mon Jun 13 2022 12:25:56

 > I read all the hype etc, but just wasn't willing to spend the
 > money they wanted (I think it came to over $150AUD).
 
 AC> Decided it wasn't worth the money ($58 US a year). At one time...I
 AC> was spending a ton of time setting up the former BBS under Warp
 AC> 5...but was a bear to get working compared to Windows.

Yeah, it just wasn't worth the effort for such a neich product. The
world of OS's had moved on.

 > 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.
 
 AC> Very true. Blew away the corporate...but had no idea on how to deal
 AC> with customers like us.

I never needed the support from IBM. When OS/2 was around, the bbs's with
lot's of support were as well. People at the time put the effort into
makeing things for OS/2 and enhancing things.

 > The hardware took leaps and bounds, yet IBM didn't do anything
 > to keep up or market OS/2 correctly.
 
 AC> True. Even today...it was true of being a better DOS than DOS &
 AC> making Win/OS/2 run like it should have.

I didn't bother with the Win support, I was more intrested in the native
OS/2 & DOS support. I ran Maximus/2 as the BBS, and went to the effort
of customizing the look and feel of it. There was a stock system in town
and users didn't think I was running the same software. #-)




\/orlon



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