Coudda been a contendah…
by Jack Grant…but never really was. For many reasons, OS/2 from IBM never made a large dent in the operating system market. Many of the features pioneered in OS/2 are now regarded as essential.
Now, it’s dead.
Interesting how the best product isn’t the one that wins in the marketplace surprisingly often.
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I won’t bemoan it’s passing at all. After years (in the early/mid 90s) of hearing how much more capable and stable OS/2 was than Windows/DOS (and bear in mind, I was not a Windows defender, I used Unix more than Win), I went into an environment where OS/2 was somewhat required. That is, it was the desktop OS for a place where I was hired to be the MIS director. After 2 weeks of OS/2 crashes and reinstalls, I removed it and put Windows 95 on desktops. I found out most people there had simply been booting to DOS instead of using OS/2, because it ran so slowly and crashed so often. Good riddance.
By Harry on 07.15.05 16:03