Subj : Return of OS/2 Warp set for 2016
To   : Soul Engine
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Jul 01 2016 07:58 pm

  Re: Return of OS/2 Warp set for 2016
  By: Soul Engine to Nightfox on Mon Jun 27 2016 03:14:09

 SE> When OS/2 Warp came out, I was working in a computer store in New Jersey.
 SE> One of our customers who was in "the garbage business" (you can never tell
 SE> if these guys are pulling your leg or the real deal) came in one day and
 SE> I'd been to an IBM conference where Warp was demo'd and I was blown away
 SE> (I had never seen the graphical WWW at this point, so it was mainly the
 SE> browser that impressed me; I misunderstood this to be a feature of Warp,
 SE> and was unaware of non-Warp WWW browsers: at that time I had a shell
 SE> account and did all of my Internet stuff that way).

 SE> Anyway I was raving about it and he bought it. So you know what happens in
 SE> the next two years. About 18 months later he comes in and plops the Warp
 SE> box down on the counter and says, "You recommend another Edsel operating
 SE> system to me, I'll break your legs."

 SE> To this day I have no idea if he was serious or not.

Funny  :)  Around that time, I remember reading articles in some computer
magazines comparing OS/2 Warp with Windows 95 and such, and many articles
talked about OS/2 favorably.  At the time I was frustrated with Microsoft
(Windows seemed slow and bloated to me), and I was hoping OS/2 would catch on
more than it did..  I used to like to try alternative operating systems back
then, but these days I feel more like whatever gets the job done is fine with
me.  I have mixed feelings about Windows 8.1 and 10 though, with the direction
the user interface has taken.  And I've heard concerns about privacy with
Windows 10.  And if Microsoft goes to a software-as-a-service model with
Windows and start charging a monthly/yearly fee to use Windows, I might think
about switching to something else more seriously.  I've used Linux on and off
for years, and there are some Linux distros I really like these days - Namely,
Mint Linux and OpenSuSE.

Nightfox

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