I guess I am glad that someone getting something positive from windows.

I have never viewed it as any more than a virus distribution system with a poorly written GUI front end.

Jerry


On 07/15/16 12:15 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 15 July 2016 at 00:39, Jerry Kemp <ot...@oryx.us> wrote:
I still judge OS/2 to be one of the better x86 options for the early and mid
1990's.


Oh, definitely, yes. It truly was "a better DOS than DOS and a better
Windows than Windows".

Then MS moved the goalposts and improved Windows and leapfrogged it --
and IMHO, IBM never really caught up.

Which was probably sensible as throwing tens of $millions of R&D at it
would never had paid back.

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