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My boss was huge into OS/2 at the time. He got it up, and running, at home, and work. Reported (and I recall agreeing after playing with it) that it was a bet
by bdunbar 13y ago
My boss was huge into OS/2 at the time.
He got it up, and running, at home, and work. Reported (and I recall agreeing after playing with it) that it was a better environment to run windows / DOS applications than was Windows.
Our employer (the US Marines) was not officially interested in the idea ... and so the idea never went past that.
- ams6110 13y agoI think "a better Windows than Windows" was an official IBM marketing line for OS/2 for a while. I used it for a while in the early 1990s as a contractor in an "IBM shop". Literally everything they bought was IBM. From the mainframe to Terminals, printers, PCs, OSes. I remember it being painfully slow.... but the PS/2 PC it was running on was probably underpowered (as is typical, contractors got the oldest hand-me-down workstations).