OS2 2.1 was a decent OS, so was Warp. I think I remember the 8580 MSRP being around $8k USD at announcement, and that was for a basic unit without extra memory. Those PS/2 option cards were expensive, the OS2 drivers for them could be a pain in the neck to install. Until Warp all the OS2 installs I did were on 1.44 diskettes.. lots of them, far more than Win 3.0 or Win 3.1. Once you got OS2 up and running many aps people wanted to run were just not available but available for Windows. Prices few small businesses or consumers were willing to pay for hardware or software, lack of software, unexpected crash and burns requiring full reinstall of OS2 to a freshly formatted hard drive... that's what I remember.
Posts by n2ubp
5 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Feb 2023
How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software
T-Mobile US drags New Jersey borough to court over school cell tower permit denial
Tuesday 18th June 2024 19:09 GMT
Maybe if they don't put those scary signs on the tall fences...
Maybe they are afraid of those scary signs on the 8 foot high fences topped with barbed wire surrounding the site stating "Danger Radio Frequency Radiation Hazard signs".
Just replace the signs with happy faces and all will be well.
Mozilla CEO quits, pushes pivot to data privacy champion... but what about Firefox?
Friday 9th February 2024 21:11 GMT
Firefox just does not work on some web sites.
I'm one of those diehard Firefox users. The past year or more Firefox is just not compatible with some very important web sites, like banks, USA government, utility companies, etc. and I find myself having to switch over to unGoogled Chromium to deal with the government, deal with financial transactions,or purchase an item from a nationwide store that is not Amazon. If this is true for others and these measurements are based on government sites that son't play nice with Firefox then of course the numbers will be low.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
