GUI

[Tim Writer]

Taavi Burns <taavi-LbuTpDkqzNzXI80/IeQp7B2eb7JE58TQ at public.gmane.org> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:32:53AM -0500, Tim Writer wrote:
> > Yes, the WPS was arguably better integrated than desktops available for Linux
> > (olwm, twm, fvwm) at that time but I'm not convinced that OS/2 could do more.
> > I ran OS/2 2.0 and Linux (SLS w/ kernel 0.98) on a 486/33 w/ 8MB RAM.  Linux
> 
> I believe that everyone referring to OS/2 being wonderful post 1995 would be
> referring to OS/2 Warp 3 (or one of its variants).  In a move totally unlike
> anything M$ has ever done, Warp 3 took less RAM and ran faster than OS/2 2.x.
> (I think it did use more disk, though)

Well, I was dumb enough to buy that too based on recommendations of some
colleagues.  Again, nice to look at but not terribly useful because it didn't
come with a host of free applications like Linux.  At the time, I was making
my living as an independent consultant and programmer working with a variety
of UNIX platforms.  In that context, the Linux development environment was
much more useful than anything (free or otherwise) I could get for OS/2 (or
Windows for that matter).

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