That brings back memories
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| Author | Content |
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| the_doctor Sep 14, 2015 6:29 PM EDT |
OS/2 Warp on The Computer Chronicles Like loading Windows 3.11 in VirtualBox, it's fun to see but not very useful. |
| penguinist Sep 14, 2015 7:40 PM EDT |
Thank you SO much for this piece of nostalgia, 25 minutes well spent. I was an OS/2 user before discovering Linux and this video report brings back a lot of memories for me. I remember trying Windows back then and wondering why people could possibly choose Windows over OS/2 if they really knew the capability differences. Microsoft did not win on the merits of its product, they won through exerting mind control over their customers. I've recently set up my notebook with an "all distro" 6-way Linux multi-boot, but now I'm thinking that I should add an OS/2 partition just for old-time's sake. |
| Ridcully Sep 15, 2015 5:47 AM EDT |
Can I support your comment please Penguinist ? I first saw OS/2 Warp at the Brisbane Museum where it was being used by the arachnid team, circa 1995-2000 if memory serves me.....I watched in amazement as it walked all over what Windows could do...multi-tasking, etc. The real problem, as I recall, is that it did not have the developers involved, and so application software was lacking........Such a rotten pity. It would have been very interesting to see what might have happened if OS/2Warp had really taken off. |
| gus3 Sep 16, 2015 11:38 AM EDT |
If I may... The problem with OS/2 was precisely that it could run Windows 3.11 applications, unmodified. Granted, it could run them better (on a more stable platform) than Windows. But from the developers' POV, why write OS/2 apps that could run on OS/2 only, when they could write Windows apps that could run on OS/2 and Windows? |
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