On 07/29/15, Jean-Claude Dumas said the following...   
       
    JD> Yea, if money was no object, it would be interesting. Makes one wonder   
    JD> why it's so expensive...   
   I dunno, I wonder if their customer base is commercial. That price may not be   
   so steep for them. If I could get a copy of OS/2 for about the same price as   
   windows I would probably do it.   
      
   I grabbed the ISO and put it on a disk and ran it. Looked quite good but I   
   had no network support to try any web surfing or anything. I was hoping to   
   put it through it's paces a bit and maybe try some telnet sites.   
      
    JD> True enought. DOS/Win support have been the strong as well as the weak   
    JD> point of OS/2. And I believe that if IBM had released 2.0 with the UI of   
    JD> 1.3 instead of delaying it to get the WPS ready, things might have been   
    JD> different.   
      
   The first and only version of OS/2 I used was Warp 3 I think it was. I picked   
   up a sealed box somewhere for $20 when I was in some store so someone else   
   could go shopping. I think that's the best deal I ever got. I ran that   
   version happily for years.   
      
    JD> different. Windows 3.0 would may have been seen as a cheap OS/2   
    JD> knockoff, who knows? Timing is everything and MS did beat IBM.   
      
   I did run windows 3.1 in OS/2. Looking back I had the best of all worlds at   
   the time.. :) Marketing. The Windows marketing crew must be the best in the   
   world. I don't know how they did it but they did. If IBM had of stayed the   
   course I likely would have to but maybe there just wasn't enough in it for   
   them to continue.   
      
    JD> It's all so easy in hindsight, isn'it? :)   
      
   That is so true.. :)   
      
    Ttyl :-),   
            Al   
      
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