Subj : Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Vorlon
Date : Sun Apr 30 2023 11:02:26

Hi Poindexter,

 On Saturday April 29 2023, Poindexter Fortran said to Vorlon:

 Vo>> I went along the same path, but went for OS/2 biniraries first if
 Vo>> there was one... Maximus, Squish, Binkley was the mix.

 PF> I picked the same apps under DOS, with the intention of eventually
 PF> moving to OS/2...

That was one of the reasons that OS/2 apps didn't take over more... People
just ran the DOS verions of the programs, after changing to the OS.

They made the DOS compatability so good that it was like shooting them self
in the foot. If the split between IBM/MS didn't happen, we would mostly be
running OS/2 now.

 Vo>> Windows 2000, was the first stable verion of windows.. It could even
 Vo>> run os/2 console progs... #-)

 PF> That, I missed. I ran Qedit for OS/2 as part of my offline reading
 PF> setup, it was much smoother under Windows 2000 than Qedit for DOS. The
 PF> DOS version was a little laggy.

The fact that Windoes 2000 could do that shows how much of the code MS took
from the joint venture.

\/orlon
aka
Stephen

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