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OS/2 was so far superior to Windows in 1992 that it wasn't even funny. Nevertheless, my company gave up on OS/2 and we had to port our Smalltalk application to
by munchler 2y ago
OS/2 was so far superior to Windows in 1992 that it wasn't even funny. Nevertheless, my company gave up on OS/2 and we had to port our Smalltalk application to Windows 3 instead. Someone had to explain segmented 16-bit addressing to me, and I was totally appalled.
Fortunately, Windows 95 came out a few years later with the Win32 API and I pretty much forgot about OS/2 after that. I still feel a bit guilty, though.
- pjmlp 2y agoIn that year I finally migrated from a Timex 2068 to a 386SX PC at home, I could have bought a PC with OS/2 and decided against it. It would have required additional 1 000€ in todays money on the bank credit, to get a PC with OS/2, instead of one with DR-DOS 5/Windows 3.1.