On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 10:12:51 -0500, Jack wrote:

On 12/25/2016 10:22 PM, Keith Nuttle wrote:

When I got my first computer the first thing I did was install OS/2.

My first computer ran DOS 2.1, because 2.0 never worked.

I ran several computers on OS/2 including a LAN server until the
1990. and
when the company I worked for was purchased by a company who ran the
Windows server.

When I purchased a new personal computer and was forced into the of
world Windows 98, it was like going back into the dark ages.

I ran OS/2 at home for many years, until IBM saw it was about to kill
windows, then they, (and I begrudgingly) let it go

For the last number of years OS/2 was an ibm product, not a microsoft
product and it was never ANYWHERE near killing Windows.
It was basically a marketting problem with IBM being unwilling to take
on Microsoft on Microsoft's terms.


. My brother still
runs it. There is a company somewhere that keeps it going. OS/2 WARP
not only made WIN 95 and Win 98 look like they were from the dark ages,
it would make WIN 10 look like it is from the dark ages.

You could run DOS, WIN95 and OS/2 apps all at the same time, seamlessly.
When WIN would crash, like it has always done since it's first
version, everything else kept running, and all you need to do was close
the WIN session and open another.

You can do the same thing with virtualization under Windows, and 64
bit windows allows you to "crash" an application without crashing the
machine,. It's called "pre-emptive multitasking - and although IBM
came out with it first in OS/2, Windows has had it for several years
now.

Windows (Microsoft) is the scourge of computing. It is a perfect
example of why the government invented anti-trust laws, and
unfortunately, what can happen if they are ignored/bought off. Another
feather in the Clinton reign of corruption.