dpb news 14:20:20 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

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".

That depends on what you were using it for. I was running a multiline
BBS at the time, so for my needs, OS/2 Warp was kicking the dog**** out
of Windows 95 as far as multitasking was concerned. It offered better
memory management and more efficient time slicing. Which, is what you
needed when you ran a DOS based bulletin board system with multiple
lines.

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.

Entirely IBMS fault, too. They did a great job writing an OS, and an
absolutely terrible job advertising it to recruit users and developers.
Windows NT was born from the fallout.

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