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The Sad Parable of OS/2

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-a-flesh-wound dept.

Still-in-Mourning writes "IBM's first 32-bit version of its advanced PC operating system was released 10 years ago this month. It was better than anything around, yet it failed. Its hopes were pinned on many of the same things we hope today will bring Linux to the forefront. What lessons are to be learned? Will we learn them? A glimpse of a sorry chapter in computing history."

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  1. Re:first post by Daveman692 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nope

  2. Re:Wasn't it obvious? by Enahs · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Typical Linux-o-phile onanism - thinking that everyone who is "computer-literate" has a copy of Linux on their system.

    More like typical humorless f**k who can't take a joke.

    Frankly, I wouldn't trust an OS that was cobbled-together by an ad-hoc committee of hackers (read "LINUX") as far as I could spit.

    Funny, I notice you've managed to post this. What do you use, a steam-powered computer with a steam-whistle calliope(sp) acting as an analog modem? Eh? Point me toward a marginally-accepted non-hacked-together OS. If you point me toward an Apple or Microsoft product, it'll be proof that their marketing departments have done their jobs.

    Don't know what I'm talking about? Remember the hype about Win95 being a total rewrite? Remember the lack of fanfare when it was discovered that wasn't true?

    As for your "humorous" LINUX acronym, I can only suppose you're a BSD zealot if you're bashing cobbled-together OSes and Linux in particular. As such you have no room to talk about xenophobia. ;-D

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