On 04/09/2017 4:02 AM, Diesel wrote:
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OS/2 warp beat the pants off Windows 3x AND 9x, but, IBM couldn't
advertise ...

The problem with OS/2 was there were no applications available to run
under it natively and it was _not_ "a better Windows than Windows".

There were several enterprise apps built on it (just saw a regional
airlines terminal the other day still!! that boggled me mind) but there
really were just no applications. There was one small outfit which I
forget their business name that tried to write a spreadsheet but by the
time they reached market it was too late--it was actually a pretty
decent start, but it was basically one guy in a garage kind of effort
with no support from IBM to any extent. If they had intentions of
making it a serious product it needed to have had IBM support to
introduce apps specific for it at the time that could compete. The toy
demos that were distributed did more to harm than help.

Did several spectroscopy applications at the time around the Canberra
data acq cards that they had bet on OS/2 but again just a niche and a
tiny, tiny one at that...not much demand for the general public.

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