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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">This all reminds me that at about the same time I saw OS/2 I’d had to work on an AIX install. That was my first time working on AIX as compared with AT&T,
SCO and various other UNIX OSes and again I was not impressed by AIX. I was sitting in a meeting with our largest customer who had specified IBM PS/2 hardware. We were testing serial port concentrators from Digiboard and during the test we got on the
subject of IBM hardware. I told them I’d worked on IBM hardware from back in the old IBM System 34 days, through the IBM PC days and now IBM PS/2 and always though IBM made the best hardware. I then said based on OS/2 and AIX I thought IBM shouldn’t be allowed
to make operating systems. Everyone turned around and looked at a guy and asked for his thoughts. Unbeknownst to me this guy was not the client but rather their IBM contact. D’oh!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>DjPfulio<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 10, 2015 1:42 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] Fwd: Donald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates to "close up" the internet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">By the time windows 3.1 came around os/2 had already lost the battle. Windows 3.0 wasn't slow on 4 mb of RAM. OS/2, required 8 mb of RAM to run as well. At the time, 8 mb of RAM in a system added $650 to the
cost. I know this because I paid it.<br>
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BTW, I was part of Team os/2 and an IBM subcontractor. Version 1.x of OS/2 wasn't a joke but it wasn't very useful either. Version 2 of OS/2 was solid but slow. Version 2.1 added a little speed but not enough. By warp v3, they made it able to install into 4
MB of RAM but it was still significantly slower than MS Windows on 4mb systems. With 8 megabytes of RAM warp was fantastic, but few pcs were shipping w/ 8mb ram.<br>
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Recall these were the days of 16 bit programs and os/2 was all 32 bit. For programmers, there is pain in changing from 16 bit to 32 bit to 64 bit.<br>
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By 1994 I already picked up UNIX/ Linux but still ran OS/2 for a desktop. Os/2 was by far the best software development environment for MS DOS.<br>
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In August 1995, windows 95 truly did change the world, for pcs. I remember clearly the leap forward in user interface design, because we were a reference site where I worked.
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Should also say, that I dictated this reply through Android.<o:p></o:p></p>
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