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I think it's fun to ponder the "what if?" universes if other operating systems had caught on. I'm not going to claim which is "better", but OS/2 was different
by tombert 3y ago
I think it's fun to ponder the "what if?" universes if other operating systems had caught on.
I'm not going to claim which is "better", but OS/2 was different enough from Windows to where I do think the world would be a different place if it had managed to win the OS wars of the 90s instead of Windows.
I suppose the same question can be asked about BeOS and NextStep (though the latter more or less did get the success to know what the future would be like).
- faeriechangling 3y agoI'll claim that it was better. The trouble was that it was made by IBM who engaged in countless acts of bureaucratic incompetence and corporate self-sabotage. From the product arriving too late, to IBM not caring about how much it cost its customers, to IBMs hubristic attitude towards third parties, to hilariously incompetent marketing.
- tombert 3y agoI've only played with OS/2 in emulators/VMs, and not really enough to form concrete opinions. What do you think made it better?