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15 July 2005 - 15:33 UTC…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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Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.
—Lazarus Long
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