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[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 03:27:18PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> Where on earth did you dig up that?  DOS support in OS/2 2.0 and later 
> was and is excellent.  I never came across a DOS program that wouldn't 
> work in it, though some required adjustment of settings.  The DOS 
> problems were in the early days of OS/2 1.x, when MS was developing it. 
>  When IBM took control at v 1.3, it was a much better product.  One 
> might assume that MS had deliberately crippled it.

So when exactly did OS/2 2.0 get released?  As far as I remember it was
around the time of Win 3.1, at which point there was already a decent
number of windows 3.x programs around, and you could still run dos
programs on dos of course.

Besides OS/2 had as far as I could tell already built up a reputation as
being incompatible with dos programs, which without good marketing to
fix the general view of it, would have been hard to overcome.

Besides, DOS never impressed me, neither did Windows, nor OS/2.  Being
and Amiga user, it wasn't until I installed Linux in 92 that I was
impressed by an OS on a PC.

Lennart Sorensen
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