Sometimes I wonder whether some posters on this site actually understand what computers are used for in the real world. The hype to reality gap of OS/2 confirmed forever that IBM makes the worst software, except perhaps for CA.”
I used 2.0 for a while - had a cool Easter Egg, does that count?
It was interesting that 10+ years later I would still see banks using it to process my transactions. “OS/2 was useful in the Windows 3.x era but not since. OS/2 is a 32-bit x86 OS from IBM with DOS-like command syntax, a very tightly written kernel that supports heavy multithreading and does very smooth task priority switching, comes with a desktop (WorkPlace Shell) which is heavily object oriented and can be extended by third parties, runs both DOS and Windows 3.1 software as well as its own, and has a sizable selection of native software including a few office suites (StarOffice, Lotus SmartSuite, Open Office), a wide selection of mail/news/web clients, and some unique native applications (Embellish, for example, is one of my favorite bitmap/paint programs on any platform). Maybe other stuff I didn’t see during my quick perusal late last night. The demo disk is a live CD that seems to include TCP/IP networking, a copy of FireFox 1.0.7, REXX, and a selection of small utilities and such (and a card game).
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ECS is a repackaging of IBM’s OS/2 Warp 4.52 client OS with all current fixes from IBM, LVM (Logical Volume Manager), JFS (IBM’s journaled filesystem), a native PM-based X server, the SNAP graphics drivers from SciTech, and a whole pile of other stuff from third parties (most of it freely downloadable on the net).
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