From: Allan Ballard (aballard_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun Jul 30 2000 - 11:54:44 EDT
For a "dead" OS, OS/2 Warp is kicking.
Yesterday, I downloaded and installed
Fixpak 14 -- hardly something IBM would
prepare and release for an orphan.
The only thing "dead" about Warp is that
so many application writers had to flee
to windose in order to sell more inventory.
So, we get a lot of windose apps, for an OS
that s*cks - and less for an OS that keeps on
keeping on.
I am not too demanding, but can't think of
anything in the 'dose world that isn't available
in the OS/2 world. Multimedia, office suites,
graphics, communications, networking,
emulation, <shrug> what more do I need?
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 03:42:27 -0700, Paul Khoury wrote:
>
>> OS/2 is barely hanging on by the skin of its teeth, thanks in no
>>small part to Microsoft-hating die-hard users like yourself. Otherwise, it
>>is dead and unsupported. Its slow death began the day IBM pulled support
>>for Team OS/2. Deal with the facts.
>>
>Which is a shame - computers and OSes, with all things seem to be this way.
>It's not the technical superiority or robustness that makes a product do well,
>it's the popularity and number of apps for it. I pretty much stopped using OS/2,
>except for 2 apps, and otherwise wouldn't use it any longer.
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