Author: Don Dailey
Date: 14:38:05 12/06/97
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On December 06, 1997 at 14:39:15, Keith Ian Price wrote: >On December 06, 1997 at 05:18:05, Jack Nerad wrote: > >>On December 04, 1997 at 19:44:31, Thorsten Czub wrote: >> >> >>>But it remains the question: why are there no other competitors who try >>>or sell a DIFFERENT and BETTER OS and stand against Microsoft ? >> >>Whatever happened to OS/2 Warp? > >Nothing. Warp 4.0 came out in September '96, and Warp 5.0 is scheduled >for sometime in '98. I use OS/2 for all my internet access, and anything >else that has been written for it. I have to use Win95 for certain chess >programs, and my the software for my work, because it wasn't written to >allow running under Win 3.1, and therefore won't run under Win-OS/2. >Programs like Fritz do, and all DOS programs run quite well without >reconfiguring, since there is over 630K of conventional memory left even >with the CD-ROM and CD-cache, mouse, etc. IBM has promised to continue >work on OS/2 for the next ten years, although it will likely be more and >more business oriented. > > >>I don't have it, but some techie friends of mine though it was *way* >>better than Windoze. > >I like it *way* better than Windows. But I don't have to have the latest >game all the time, either. I was thinking that for the 3-D games like >Doom, Quake, etc., the Sony Playstation is probably a "better Windows >than Windows" anyway. But it has its place. I would always recommend it >to a newbie over OS/2, due to the ease of finding somene else to help >them support it, and the large selection of software. I bought Window NT >3.51 because I wanted to have something compatible that was supposed to >be a real operating system, and the first thing it did was to corrupt my >partition table, and destroy all the data on one of my drives. Buried >deep in the Microsoft web pages was a page stating that they were aware >of this problem, and that it was serious, so they had made a program to >try to rebuild the partiton table, but that it would only work in 10% of >the cases, so my best bet was to reformat and restore from my backup. >The message was almost a year old at that time, yet they had never >recalled the software, as IBM would have done immediately, had they ever >made such a mistake. So, I still use OS/2, and with what software runs, >it's great. > >kp I'm currently running Linux at home and other Unixes at work. For several months I converted to Warp and really liked it! But I ended up in an environment with lot's of unix machines and linux turned out to be the better choice for me. I think OS/2 would have been a much better standard than Windows. To me it felt powerful like Unix but not as complicated. You felt like there was really something "under the hood" like you do with Unix. Don
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