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Originally posted by TheFLY
I remember when you could choose from like 13 modems 2400 modems... I had a Hayes, a couple of USR HST C's, something with MNP 5... and I had a 2400 with a v.42bis...
I was multitasking before anyone... I had betas of DESQView and the first preemp ever on a PC -- OS/2 1.0... First preemp ever of DOS windows OS/2 2.0... DESQView was hot but it didn't have a graphic interface... Then OS/2 fucked up because of poor marketing and a boring interface -- Gates was smart to target the home... IBM was still stuck thinking of "business" as the target audience... I'm sure OS/2 is still running some really heavy powered stuff even today -- mission critical stuff -- but who really knows... OS/2 officially died when I was working for them... I saw their last stitch effort -- it was like watching a burning ship sink slowly over two weeks they worked on the kernal insane hours -- they had their best people working on it... but it was pointless from beginning -- OS/2 was just boring and gray. I asked them why it was so boring -- they told me it was because they did a study on workplace environment and found that gray was the most pleasant and easy on the eyes...
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Haha, the memories. I remember DESQView; hell, I liked it so much that I worked for Quarterdeck for 5 years. All us hardcore BBSers used it... chaining 64 physical modems to one hardware interrupt... insane bastards
OS/2... I never used it. I respected the technology, but IBM never understood the kernal's consumer power (MS did with NT 3.something, as it used the exact same kernal). Hell, IBM taught MS more about secure application layers than they've ever been able to learn on their own... to this day, all recently released MS OS's (2k and XP) use essentially the same early 1990's kernal that OS/2 and early NT used.
Damn, I'm a geek
