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By the early 90s pc clones were much cheaper than $2K and I'd reckon OS/2 was a much bigger competitor to Windows than GEOS.
by 0x445442 9y ago
By the early 90s pc clones were much cheaper than $2K and I'd reckon OS/2 was a much bigger competitor to Windows than GEOS.
- ams6110 9y agoOn the other hand, in the same era (~1993) you could have had what was effectively Mac OS X (NEXTSTEP) which ran on x86 clones at that time (though with a fairly narrow set of supported hardware). Absolutely blew away anything offered by Microsoft, Apple, or IBM at that time.
- rrdharan 9y agoYou could also have had an Amiga which AIUI blew away NeXTSTEP as far as price/performance? Not really speaking from a position of expertise on the matter, since I've only ever seen (and never used) a Video Toaster and the only NeXT machine I've ever used is the one in the computer museum in Google's NYC office.
- ido 9y agoamiga was no longer particularly cutting edge by the time VGA and 386s became common in the 90s, its advantage was astonishing mostly during the 80s and very early 90s (8088-286 era).
- lukeh 9y agoYup, NEXTSTEP was pretty nice. I still miss its UI. I think I started using it in 1993 (just).
- dragonwriter 9y ago> I'd reckon OS/2 was a much bigger competitor to Windows than GEOS. GEOS was a competitor to Windows 2/3 (a DOS add-on) and OS/2 was a competitor to Windows NT.