nderbird/10.0.11   
   On 11/16/12 04:55 am, dccxxvii wrote:   
   > Now that the troll tholen has seemingly departed and the plethora of   
   > junk he generated has died down, would anyone actually interested in   
   > OS/2 like to give me reasons why I might want use it in preference to   
   > other OS's?   
      
   There is really no reason to use OS/2 as your only computer these days.    
      Unless you like banging your head against the wall.   
      
   However, it remains an interesting thing to play with.   The challenge    
   of getting it to do anything useful is fun - assuming you like    
   challenges.  For example, I just got the networking going, and got    
   Thunderbird running here.   
      
   I used to use OS/2 all the time, but that was 20 years ago.  It got me    
   thru the Windows 3.0/3.1 era.  OS/2 2.1 and 3.0 ran Win 3.1 and DOS apps    
   better than Win 3.1 and DOS.  When Win 95 and NT 4 became available, I    
   abandoned OS/2 since it was clear IBM was also.   When Will Zachmann    
   came to the same conclusion a year or so later, everyone knew it was all    
   over for OS/2.   
      
   These days OS/2 is little more than a historical curiosity.  Along with    
   others like the many Unix OSes (Coherent, Xenix etc. among many others I    
   had), the Apple Lisa, the Apple ///, TRS-80s and the dozen or so OSes    
   they had, CPM etc. etc.   
      
   All gone, some nearly forgotten.   
      
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