Subj : Still using OS/2?
To   : Jean-Claude Dumas
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Jul 30 2015 01:10 pm


29 Jul 15 08:32, you wrote to Alan Ianson:

 AI>> Not anymore, but I have fond memories of OS/2. I was looking at the
 AI>> ecs website not long ago wondering if I should do the deal. It's not
 AI>> inexpensive and you have to also pay more for each core.

 JD> Yea, if money was no object, it would be interesting. Makes one wonder
 JD> why it's so expensive...

ummm... antiques are expensive... rare items are expensive...

 AI>> Not useless at all, always was and still is good for FTN stuff. I can
 AI>> do all the FTN stuff on my linux box that I ever did on OS/2, but I
 AI>> have lost the ease of running dos doors that I had with OS/2.

 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
 JD> of 1.3 instead of delaying it to get the WPS ready, things might have
 JD> been 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.

m$ beat IBM because IBM didn't know how to support all the millions of little 
people... IBM's base was in big iron and the $$$$$ they could charge for 
support...

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

in many cases, yep!

)\/(ark

.... A bore is a man who, when asked how he is, tells you.
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