From: Randal Whittle (rwhittle_at_usa.net)
Date: Tue Jan 05 1999 - 01:07:14 EST
At 11:05 PM 1/4/99 -0600, you wrote:
>>> <Grin!> Pardon my gloating, but this is the famed, ultra-stable, OS/2
>>> Operating System that can't handle a simple keyboard trap?
>
>No, its just Randal Whittle doing a pointless attack on the wrong target.
Take it easy Jeff--I was just poking a little fun. It was good-natured,
not a "pointless attack".
There's only a couple of people on this list that go back to its inception
as I do, and they know that I personally have at one time or another had
OS/2 installed on my machines (though it has been a while), and for that
matter my family name has a legacy attached to it that true OS/2
afficianados will recognize. I'm no stranger to--nor an enemy--of OS/2 and
its roots.
I do muse at the minions of various OS's that claim their favorite to be
solid, stable, etc. In my experience, its pretty much B.S. I had various
versions of OS/2 on my machine and it crashed far more than I ever expected
it would. I even had a PowerMac--sheesh, the MacOS is no less buggy than
Windows and anyone who says otherwise must not load any extensions.
I'm sure OS/2 has improved greatly since I last used it (version 3?
Whenever they began the "Warp" moniker), and I really do wish that it had
won the OS wars, but Windows did and there's not much I can do about it.
I'm not willing to step into niche apps and scratch my way through
conversions to communicate with other people (I did plenty of that with the
Mac), so whether I like it or not, I'm pretty much stuck with Windows--that
is until the rest of the world changes too. Perhaps when Sun Microsystems'
and Scott McNealy's vision of networked computers catches on, the OS will
be irrelevant anyway. Until then...
- Randy
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