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OS/2 was the most impressive "prosumer" OS of the time. Wasn't as impressed by anything else that was not from Apple or Microsoft except NeXTStep and BeOS.
by pmarreck 7y ago
OS/2 was the most impressive "prosumer" OS of the time.
Wasn't as impressed by anything else that was not from Apple or Microsoft except NeXTStep and BeOS.
- astrodust 7y agoWhen Windows 95 launched I was largely underwhelmed. It was like an ugly version of OS/2 with more bugs. They stole the right-click menu and the Blue Screen of Death.
- sedatk 7y agoStole? You need to read about Windows 95’s development history.
- astrodust 7y agoThey took IBM's money and spent a bunch of it on developing a competitor to OS/2. They also baited a bunch of their competitors into developing for OS/2 because it had IBM's support, then made their own products for Windows. WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 for OS/2 were great products for the wrong OS.
- icedchai 7y agoWhat did you think of the Amiga? Early 90's Amiga OS was contemporary with OS/2 2.x. It had preemptive multitasking, but lacked memory protection.
- tom_ 7y agoLike everything about the Amiga: in 1985, implausible; in 1989, excusable; in 1991, unforgivable. And by 1994: punishable by death. (See also, though with timeline offset and/or scaled: RISC OS, MacOS.)
- pmarreck 7y agoI liked it. Was extremely focused on games instead of regular computing, though (save for Video Toaster, possibly the first "killer app")