Case in point, since the author specifically mentions Sims games as free-form games: I recently had the dubious honor of setting up a system for a (very) young lady with the exclusive objective of being able to play Sims 2 on it.
After setting up the system, I gave the game a fling; turns out my avatar played the beast-with-two-backs with its partner within 10 minutes. Dud. Easy. Boring. Next.
Look at OS/2 v2/3 -- The icons were so fugly that even I could make better ones in MSPaint, and the fonts were big chunky and blocky.
Ah yes, Helvetica extra chunky. Horrible.
Also, OS/2 came with a "power user" desktop that relied heavily on nested folders, drag-n-drop, right-drag-n-drop, "templates", and property windows.
You're being redundant here; drag-n-drop was always implemented via RMB within the Workplace Shell (1992 with OS2 2.0). Prior to that, it worked just as Windows 3.x did.
This was in an era when most PC users hadn't even touched a mouse.
I don't agree. Most users had plenty of experience using a mouse by 1992.
While the WPS never took off, this was never a key factor in OS/2's failing.
Most of this was fixed with OS/2 v4 that copied the "Start Menu" idea
"Licensed" would be the proper term here. The Warpcenter, which incorporated functionality similar to the "Start Menu" was taken from Lotus' "Smartcenter", part of their "Smartuite" Office Suite, which coincidentally predates Windows 95.
But that came out in 1996 (8 years after the original OS/2 GUI)
It'd be nice if you stuck apples with apples. The GUI from 1988 had nothing to do with all of your aforementioned gripes; it's as if you'd be mixing Windows 3.x and 9x in one hodgepodge pile and always picking the sour grapes.
Your comment regarding Win32 support under OS/2 warrants some clarification: IBM never attempted to implement the full Win32 API for OS/2, they only aimed for the subset aptly named Win32s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win32s.
And lets not forget the direct German help[2] in creating Iraqi chemical weapons.
Let's not get carried away here. While there was substantial help coming to Iraq for their chemical weapons program, this was never done by Germany's government. Rather it was the case of several companies illegally exporting such goods and facilitating such deals.
Just a followup:
whois gives ma a admin name/email of hostmaster@GAP.COM and tech email/adress of postmaster@gap.com. My previous mail gave me the following rapport:
The original message was received at Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:45:43 -0800 (PST)
from rcctmw02.americas.gap.com [3.10.201.177]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
stephanie_hamby
(reason: 550 stephanie_hamby@notes.gap.com... No such user)
(expanded from: stephanie_hamby)
----- Transcript of session follows -----... while talking to hqnoteshub.gap.com.:
>>>>>> DATA
The original message was received at Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:45:43 -0800 (PST)
from rcctmw02.americas.gap.com [3.10.201.177]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
stephanie_hamby
(reason: 550 stephanie_hamby@notes.gap.com... No such user)
(expanded from: stephanie_hamby)
----- Transcript of session follows -----... while talking to hqnoteshub.gap.com.:
>>>>>> DATA
Their own reg data seems to be f_u_pped. Damn f*ckin morons.
Slashdot Mirror
And for Extra-Fun-Filled-Party-Action, put your browser in kiosk mode and just see the flash animation http://r33b.net/flash/r33bit.swf
And here are the links to the Skeptoid podcast:
The podcast proper: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4021
The video mentioned in the podcast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1hoiHvOeGc
...Africans do no have smaller brains because white people had cave-men sex with Thog.
Maybe with Og or Trog, but Thog thinks girls have cooties.
IIRC only 16-bit Windows apps were supported (Win95 was released a couple of years before that.)
i ndex.html
Mind if I call bullshit on your history? OS/2 2.0 was released in 1992, which already included Win16 support.
OS/2 3.0 (AKA OS/2 Warp) also predates Win95, published in 1994. More info than anyone would care to know can be found at http://pages.prodigy.net/michaln/history/os2warp/
Case in point, since the author specifically mentions Sims games as free-form games: I recently had the dubious honor of setting up a system for a (very) young lady with the exclusive objective of being able to play Sims 2 on it. After setting up the system, I gave the game a fling; turns out my avatar played the beast-with-two-backs with its partner within 10 minutes. Dud. Easy. Boring. Next.
Look at OS/2 v2/3 -- The icons were so fugly that even I could make better ones in MSPaint, and the fonts were big chunky and blocky.
Ah yes, Helvetica extra chunky. Horrible.
Also, OS/2 came with a "power user" desktop that relied heavily on nested folders, drag-n-drop, right-drag-n-drop, "templates", and property windows.
You're being redundant here; drag-n-drop was always implemented via RMB within the Workplace Shell (1992 with OS2 2.0). Prior to that, it worked just as Windows 3.x did.
This was in an era when most PC users hadn't even touched a mouse.
I don't agree. Most users had plenty of experience using a mouse by 1992.
While the WPS never took off, this was never a key factor in OS/2's failing.
Most of this was fixed with OS/2 v4 that copied the "Start Menu" idea
"Licensed" would be the proper term here. The Warpcenter, which incorporated functionality similar to the "Start Menu" was taken from Lotus' "Smartcenter", part of their "Smartuite" Office Suite, which coincidentally predates Windows 95.
But that came out in 1996 (8 years after the original OS/2 GUI)
It'd be nice if you stuck apples with apples. The GUI from 1988 had nothing to do with all of your aforementioned gripes; it's as if you'd be mixing Windows 3.x and 9x in one hodgepodge pile and always picking the sour grapes.
Your comment regarding Win32 support under OS/2 warrants some clarification: IBM never attempted to implement the full Win32 API for OS/2, they only aimed for the subset aptly named Win32s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win32s.
There is an ongoing effort to implement a wine-like Win32 API on OS/2 called Odin at http://odin.netlabs.org/, current binaries at ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin.
Just stumbled on this little gem in the rough and thought I might share it http://www.taleworlds.com/
And lets not forget the direct German help[2] in creating Iraqi chemical weapons.
Let's not get carried away here. While there was substantial help coming to Iraq for their chemical weapons program, this was never done by Germany's government. Rather it was the case of several companies illegally exporting such goods and facilitating such deals.
Just a followup: whois gives ma a admin name/email of hostmaster@GAP.COM and tech email/adress of postmaster@gap.com. My previous mail gave me the following rapport: ... while talking to hqnoteshub.gap.com.:
>>>>>> DATA
The original message was received at Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:45:43 -0800 (PST)
from rcctmw02.americas.gap.com [3.10.201.177]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
stephanie_hamby
(reason: 550 stephanie_hamby@notes.gap.com... No such user)
(expanded from: stephanie_hamby)
----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to hqnoteshub.gap.com.:
>>>>>> DATA
Their own reg data seems to be f_u_pped. Damn f*ckin morons.
The original message was received at Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:45:43 -0800 (PST) from rcctmw02.americas.gap.com [3.10.201.177] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- stephanie_hamby (reason: 550 stephanie_hamby@notes.gap.com... No such user) (expanded from: stephanie_hamby) ----- Transcript of session follows -----