Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

20 year old news about obsolete operating systems?o_O

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That's what I though Wizard and why I didn't click on the link.

Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Stardock once focused on OS/2, which is why I thought this was good. It is an anti-trust exhibit that took some time before it is revealed.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

That' actually an interesting document to read. O.o' wow.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Here we read how come we had to wait 20 years before a same quality OS (win7) as OS/2 came on the market. Makes you want to cry all over again.

 

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

To be fair, OS/2 had some really wonky quircks. I've had it installed on a machine before. It wasn't neccesarily bad for it's time, but it was certainly different, that's for sure.

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

What I find most interesting in that email is Microsoft's position at the time that "OS/2 was plagued from the beginning by the late deliveries and poor code, demonstrating again that excellent software can only be written by small teams, at a single site, sharing a similar culture."

The Microsoft of today is the IBM of yesterday.

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 7
What I find most interesting in that email is Microsoft's position at the time that "OS/2 was plagued from the beginning by the late deliveries and poor code, demonstrating again that excellent software can only be written by small teams, at a single site, sharing a similar culture."

The Microsoft of today is the IBM of yesterday.
End of JcRabbit's quote

From a vintage when "no-one will ever need more than 640k ram...."

With the benefit of hindsight just about anyone is an idiot....;)

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

:andrew:

Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 8
With the benefit of hindsight just about anyone is an idiot...
End of Jafo's quote

Wrong:

With the benefit of hindsight just about anyone everybody is an idiot...

;)

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 8
From a vintage when "no-one will ever need more than 640k ram...."

With the benefit of hindsight just about anyone is an idiot....
End of Jafo's quote

Hehe, how true. When he said that, I had managed to write a whole Basic interpreter (with support for graphical windows, sprites, wire frame graphics, etc...) in just under *16* KB of Assembly Z80 code (God bless the Sinclair Zx Spectrum!). So I know where he was coming from - 640 KB of memory at at the time was HUGE!

Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top

In fact, what would be even better is that if MS can wait until IBM finish what became IBM OS/2 2.0 GA and ship that instead as MS OS/2 2.0.