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   Jean-Claude Dumas to Alan Ianson   
   Still using OS/2?   
   29 Jul 15 08:32:54   
   
    AI> Not anymore, but I have fond memories of OS/2. I was    
    AI> looking at the ecs website not long ago wondering if I    
    AI> should do the deal. It's not inexpensive and you have    
    AI> to also pay more for each core.   
      
   Yea, if money was no object, it would be interesting. Makes one wonder why   
   it's so expensive...   
      
    AI> Not useless at all, always was and still is good for    
    AI> FTN stuff. I can do all the FTN stuff on my linux box    
    AI> that I ever did on OS/2, but I have lost the ease of    
    AI> running dos doors that I had with OS/2.   
      
   True enought. DOS/Win support have been the strong as well as the weak point   
   of OS/2. And I believe that if IBM had released 2.0 with the UI of 1.3 instead   
   of delaying it to get the WPS ready, things might have been different. Windows   
   3.0 would may have been seen as a cheap OS/2 knockoff, who knows? Timing is   
   everything and MS did beat IBM.   
      
   It's all so easy in hindsight, isn'it? :)   
      
      
   JC   
      
      
   --- Maximus 3.01   
    * Origin: ModŠs tm (modestm.ddns.net) Valcourt, Qc (1:249/204)   

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