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So the brilliant marketing boys at IBM decided to support Windows and Windows apps under OS/2 and market it as a "better Windows than Windows". Unfortunately, Windows came first and there were apps for it and (almost) none for the new OS/2. The competition that Mac owners were worried about was OS/2 and Presentation Manager which was arguably superior to the MacOS of the day. Windows *was* around but it was slow and buggy on the XT/AT class machines that were around. Your post reminded me of that.īack in those days I had a Mac || which was the ultimate fast coolest home machine in my geek BBS world. Oh well! I guess if OS/2 had been worth learning then I could have found a copy and I would have messed with it. It's the city, they're suppose to have that shit. Louis not knowing what-the-fuck when I asked about OS/2.
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I specifically remember the random guy at the software store in St. That's an impressionable time! And I didn't spend it learning OS/2 for lack of availability. Well, nonetheless, it just wasn't available where ever I was able to look, or where ever Mom helped me look.īut I had my Slackware version 1 CDs! So I messed with Linux, barely knowing what I was doing, barely getting anywhere really, but learning. Louis (not only would I ride in the back seat, but I had to sit in the middle!) What 11 year old wanted to try a new and different operating system? I mean what the hell.
11? I couldn't find a copy, even after a trip to St.
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I would mod you up but I'd rather reinforce your hypothesis directly.īeing young and barely having a notion of what I really wanted, I wanted a copy of OS/2 Warp just to mess with it. Or not, Vista ain't a ME yet and ME never threathened their business model. MS might soon face a real nightmare, being beaten NOT by a competitor they can out advertise or EVEN outperform, but beaten by their own product. With Vista they are taking a gamble, has their lockin become powerfull enough they can now survive without it? Personally I think it has, but you never know. Piracy has been a critical element in MS rise to fame.
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How are you going to answer a call asking how to change a setting when you have no idea what is where? I am not going to claim that people I know stay with XP because they can't get support from me otherwise but it is a simple choice, learn windows Vista when you never learned/wanted to learn Windows in the first place, or stay with XP I will be happy to hand you a copy off.ĪNSWER: Fact is that many people liked it but didn't manage to get a copy. So what you ask? Well like many here I am the IT support guy in my social circle and I can't support Vista because I don't know it.
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Another advantage to W95 which was buggy as hell and often had problem during install BUT did eventually run.Ī similar problem is happening right now with Vista, hard to pirate, so I haven't tried it. I did have my hands on a trial of OS/2 Warp, but I never managed to install it on my PC.
For the record I stayed with DOS for far longer and later W95 (wasn't till the early parts of W2K that I learned about unix and later linux) but the simple fact is that MS has had a simple advantage, its software is available to those who for what ever reason don't buy their software in boxes. But not in the way the BSA would have you believe, the simple fact was that like you, people like me couldn't get their hands on OS/2 through copyright infringement.
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