Subj : Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Vorlon
Date : Tue May 02 2023 11:27:51

Hi Poindexter,

 On Sunday April 30 2023, Poindexter Fortran said to Vorlon:

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

 PF> I'd heard that Microsoft made it very easy for developers to get SDKs
 PF> and develop on Windows, whereas OS/2 development tools were pricy and
 PF> harder to get. That seemed to jibe with what I'd heard.

Typical of MS,, screw the other guy over and make our product look better.

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

 PF> I didn't think it was DOS support so much that hampered them, by the
 PF> time GUI apps rolled around Windows got them first. The OS/2 graphical
 PF> app market felt like the B team of apps, or names that were associated
 PF> with corporate IT, like Lotus and WordPerfect.

Why would you dev a product that can run on the most popular os, when the
next can also run products for the other os... Bake the cake once!

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

If the current holders of the os/2 licence, didn't charge so much for it, I
would have given both a look... At $250AUD aprox. it's just not worth it. I
run linux on my personal machine(s), even though I do have licences for that
other os, and support it in my $$ job.. I'd rather not have to deal with it
in my own time....


\/orlon
aka
Stephen

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