25 Jan
2010
25 Jan
'10
2:09 p.m.
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
OS/2 has a personality. What kind of personality is up to debate. ;-)
No argument from me on that score.
In 2000-2003 I was teaching IBM's Linux curricula and all of Austin's
OS/2 guys were scrambling to get Linux trained. Just about every
in-house Linux class I tought in that time-frame had one OS/2 fanatic
who couldn't care less about learning Linux. His whole motivation for
attending would be proving to me, the other students, and Gawd that
Linux will never be half the operating system OS/2 should have been.
Doc
You can find personality in almost any computer
subculture if you look
hard enough. I've been involved with the "demoscene" since 1990 and no
matter what platform a demo is written on, there's a lot of personality.
I'd argue that IBM machinery definitely had a personality -- reliable,
solid, strong, definitive. Artistic or creative? No. But intriguing
all the same.
Um. Can you say "OS/2"?