OS2 is the operating system of the future. It will replace everything.

@SteelHands No, but higher numbers and compatability with the dominant software is important and a key to success. If your smart and want to make a good system and also sell it. You go with what is market dominate. What people have and are using.

@MethDozer You must know something about something now.

Got that marketing piggy marketing thinking thingy going. I bet you used to add snap ins and build macros for the sub version 4.1 lotus kits back in 94 even.

Walp!

I sure lost this argument. Thanks for teaching me all bout the Katz supposition acquisition buddy. Ya know round these parts all we got are black heart plunger lipspst and good ol boy cumfedrit flaskshsg.

Hhhhaaaaahahaha..

S33 u53

@SteelHands This comment is awesome.😂.


Good showing man.

@raysam363 yep, and the mouse. Steve Jobs was allowed to visit them and stole the idea and claimed it as his. As he did his whole charletan career.

@raysam363 That's actually UNIX based. A telecom financed project.

@SteelHands Not really. It was well known and accepted that IBM'S coding was bloated and redundant. I mean yeah it had its few neckbeard followers but between the bloated coding, lack of support towards peripherals, difficulty running DOS efficiently, tendency to deadlock systems, being extremely picky on hardware, and lack of software....it was a complete failure. It as little more than an attempt by IBM to squash the PC comparable market.


But it ran for awhile on ATMs and phone switchboard in backwater corners of the globe. 👍️


Everything was on floppies in the 90s.

@MethDozer Ms had its problems with plug and play as well. Drivers for OS2 were scarce because they were more selective about porting licenses. IBM didn't offer support for free like MS did so they wouldn't have to cope with non experts.

IBM was already in concept with cloud, even then. I liked OS2. Had few problems with it and only ran MS at the same time because of the availability of better browser kits and FTP info on those channels. Interrupt shuffling and port assignments were extremely tedious even on the MS systems which the plug and play was so lame I would always turn off. BIOS mattered.

Avalanches of IBM and Compaq, Award and Phoenix, the nightmare called HP, and patches and updates. Speed fixes and buss adapters kept it not easy for the golden screwdriver types that actually were mere board swappers.

I just liked Intel boards and processors that were made to work with IBM code. It was more reliable and didn't resort to displays about fatal checksums and mastersheets to track down conflicts. It gave me the benefit of assuming I knew where and how the scans became tangled along the A16.

Yeah. So what? Water over three dam, right?

@SteelHands You just described perfectly the major follies of there dumb own to own the market.

Just funny in retrospect. Ahh the the late 80s and 90s. So much "promising" garbage.

@SW-User It was a pipe dream that never had a shot.