OS2 is the operating system of the future. It will replace everything.
Lol, remember those dumbasses?
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SteelHands · 61-69, M
OS 2 warp was factually the layout of the windows 95 platform with a high performance file partitions.
It was superior to m soft in every way except for the easily reverse engineered os kernel.
It was deliberately crashed at the Chicago convention to force the merge between IBM and MS.
It was superior to m soft in every way except for the easily reverse engineered os kernel.
It was deliberately crashed at the Chicago convention to force the merge between IBM and MS.
MethDozer · M
@SteelHands Superiour my ass. It was bloated AF and a wonky POS.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@MethDozer Bloated? It was installed on 3.5 floppies. Lol
You probably just had a slow CPU and a bottlenecked side cache on your HD.
It ran like a race car on an Intel 100 Pentium, a 10k rpm scuzzy and plenty of Kingston.
You must've been running junk.
You probably just had a slow CPU and a bottlenecked side cache on your HD.
It ran like a race car on an Intel 100 Pentium, a 10k rpm scuzzy and plenty of Kingston.
You must've been running junk.
MethDozer · M
@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.
But it ran for awhile on ATMs and phone switchboard in backwater corners of the globe. 👍️
Everything was on floppies in the 90s.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@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?
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?
MethDozer · M
@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.
Just funny in retrospect. Ahh the the late 80s and 90s. So much "promising" garbage.