On 15 July 2016 at 00:39, Jerry Kemp <other at 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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