July 15, 2005

Science & Technology:

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.

Posted by: Harry at July 15, 2005 04:03 PM
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