29 Jul 15 08:32, you wrote to Alan Ianson:   
      
    AI>> Not anymore, but I have fond memories of OS/2. I was looking at the   
    AI>> ecs website not long ago wondering if I should do the deal. It's not   
    AI>> inexpensive and you have to also pay more for each core.   
      
    JD> Yea, if money was no object, it would be interesting. Makes one wonder   
    JD> why it's so expensive...   
      
   ummm... antiques are expensive... rare items are expensive...   
      
    AI>> Not useless at all, always was and still is good for FTN stuff. I can   
    AI>> do all the FTN stuff on my linux box that I ever did on OS/2, but I   
    AI>> have lost the ease of running dos doors that I had with OS/2.   
      
    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   
    JD> of 1.3 instead of delaying it to get the WPS ready, things might have   
    JD> been 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.   
      
   m$ beat IBM because IBM didn't know how to support all the millions of little   
   people... IBM's base was in big iron and the $$$$$ they could charge for   
   support...   
      
    JD> It's all so easy in hindsight, isn'it? :)   
      
   in many cases, yep!   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   ... A bore is a man who, when asked how he is, tells you.   
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