Re: The Future of IBM ..

Very true. I ran OS/2 until the bitter end, and joined many wearing "TEAM OS/2" ribbons at COMMON and other events. I dual booted my laptop between OS/2 and Windows 98 and there was absolutely no comparison in reliability or performance and many other issues. It wasn't until Windows 2000 that parity was even near. Sadly even IBM gave up releasing OS/2 versions of software (Notes, Client Access etc.) so there was no choice but to abandon it.

I do still have the "OS/2 32 bit Client Access Doorstop Brick" of diskettes unopened in my Archives. :-)

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 7/1/2013 11:07 AM, Jon Paris wrote:

Not disputing the truth of many aspects of these comments - but there were a lot of ethically dubious practices on MS' behalf as well that went into the eventual demise of OS/2. DevKit issues could have been resolved - even marketing was beginning to show some progress.

Sad - it wasn't until more than 5 years later that I finally got a Windows PC with an operating system that even came close to the stability of OS/2.


On 2013-07-01, at 10:44 AM, Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Exactly! OS/2 was so superior that it would have easily have won the
battle, except for what Dan just pointed out.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 7/1/2013 9:16 AM, Dan Kimmel wrote:

The real reason Windows succeeded and OS/2 didn't: Microsoft gave their devkit away, IBM wanted something like $6000 for theirs.

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