Subj : Re: Still using OS/2?
To   : Jean-Claude Dumas
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Wed Jul 29 2015 09:54 pm

 
 JD> Yea, if money was no object, it would be interesting. Makes one wonder
 JD> why it's so expensive...
I dunno, I wonder if their customer base is commercial. That price may not be
so steep for them. If I could get a copy of OS/2 for about the same price as
windows I would probably do it.

I grabbed the ISO and put it on a disk and ran it. Looked quite good but I
had no network support to try any web surfing or anything. I was hoping to
put it through it's paces a bit and maybe try some telnet sites.

 JD> True enought. DOS/Win support have been the strong as well as the weak
 JD> point of OS/2. And I believe that if IBM had released 2.0 with the UI of
 JD> 1.3 instead of delaying it to get the WPS ready, things might have been
 JD> different.

The first and only version of OS/2 I used was Warp 3 I think it was. I picked
up a sealed box somewhere for $20 when I was in some store so someone else
could go shopping. I think that's the best deal I ever got. I ran that
version happily for years.

 JD> different. Windows 3.0 would may have been seen as a cheap OS/2
 JD> knockoff, who knows? Timing is everything and MS did beat IBM.

I did run windows 3.1 in OS/2. Looking back I had the best of all worlds at
the time.. :) Marketing. The Windows marketing crew must be the best in the
world. I don't know how they did it but they did. If IBM had of stayed the
course I likely would have to but maybe there just wasn't enough in it for
them to continue.

 JD> It's all so easy in hindsight, isn'it? :)

That is so true.. :)

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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