Subj : Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat May 06 2023 08:13:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to Vorlon <=-

 Ni> And back in the 90s (when Linux was still fairly new), the competition
 Ni> was between Windows and OS/2 (and to some extent, GeoWorks Ensemble had
 Ni> been around for PCs but wasn't really common) - and I thought OS/2 was
 Ni> technically a lot better than Windows 3.1 or Windows 95.

Shout out for GeoWorks - they were down the street from where I was
working at the time, and made a low-end PC useful. The WYSIWYG word
processor was adequate, they had a paint program that was decent, and
you could drop to DOS for DOS programs. The version I had came with
Borland's Quattro Pro spreadsheet.

I was amused by the fact that Geoworks running on a 386sx with 2MB of
RAM looked just like UNIXWare running on high-end boxes at work - they
both used the same window manager.



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