On 14 July 2016 at 22:51, Jerry Kemp <other at oryx.us> wrote:
I'm missing something here. Although most did/are using the Apple supplied
GUI/Aqua, it wasn't a requirement.
I have/run OpenWindows (compiled for OS X/PPC), and also, although mostly
for fun, have a copy of the Mosaic web browser, also compiled for OS X/PPC.
Aside from the Netinfo directory server, from a basic level, you can pretty
much do & run anything you would on Solaris, Unix, *BSD or Lunix. What OS X
didn't ship with wasn't too hard to compile on my own.
*Blink*
Really?
I did not think it was possible to boot OS X in multiuser mode
_without_ loading Aqua and the desktop. Am I wrong?
Darwin, maybe, but AFAIK Darwin isn't maintained any more, is it?
In defense of OS/2, I went from straight DOS to OS/2
1.3. I was taking a
lot of college programming classes, and in Assembly language specifically, I
found any number of ways to blow things up and loose my work. OS/2 truly
provided a "better DOS than DOS", and I could blow up a DOS session with my
Assembly code and go right on working.
Interesting. I didn't do much programming on OS/2, more on plain old
DOS, but I could readily crash my OS/2 2 home PC with Fractint. Its
fancy video modes could instantly cause OS/2 to throw an exception and
halt.
Applications are/were a long story on OS/2, that I
could write volumes on,
but in short, if you wanted to play games, DOS and later, Windows was the
place to be. Or the more 2000+ updated answer, on a game console.
Hmmm. I take your point. I was never a gamer and Win3 apps ran great
on OS/2 2, IME.
OTOH, how many word
processors/spreadsheets/presentation programs does one
need per OS?
:-) Variety is the spice of life?
From a technical perspective, the only big problem I
had with OS/2, back in
the 1990's, was the single thread input queue on the new OOUI, WPS (Work
Place Shell).
Indeed. And honestly WPS was really not all that as a shell. I place
it down there with Amiga Intuition in its clunkiness. Classic MacOS,
OS X and Win9x were all slicker and more capable IMHO.
OS/2 is now sold under the name
"eComStation" and boots from JFS2 volumes.
Indeed. I've tried it. It's just as much of a PITA to install as it
was 20y ago. :-(
In summary, back in the early 1990's, I moved to
OS/2. I didn't do it to
get some application I needed, I moved for stability in the Wintel world.
And for me, it did a great job.
I went from OS/2 2 to the beta of Win95, and then, later, to NT 4. At
work, I used NT 3 -- for me, 3.51 was a classic version. No fancy UI
but solid and capable. By modern standards, fast, too.
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