Blackstrat 2 days ago

OS/2 had the best API that I’ve worked with. We did major banking apps in the early 90s. OS/2 was vastly superior to Windows NT and Windows.

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nickthegreek 3 days ago

I was super excited for BeOS myself.

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  • antod 2 days ago

    I was a little surprised to have to scroll this far down to see BeOS come up. The first Amiga mention wasn't far above it either.

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  • Froedlich 2 days ago

    I'm booting and running Haiku on my Thinkpad. It's a from-scratch workalike of BeOS, and able to run Be software. Though, frankly, Be software is totally 1990s, so a lot of Linux software written for Qt has been ported to Haiku.

    In the end I wound up with basically the same application software as on my Debian desktop, except running on Haiku instead of Linux. Haiku is noticeably snappier and more responsive than Linux+X+Qt+KDE, though.

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BirAdam 2 days ago

Did an install of OS/2 3.0 recently, and it was just as wonderful as the first time I used it. That team got so much so right.

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burnt-resistor 2 days ago

In late September or early October 1996, Fry's Electronics places a full page promo ad on the back of the business section of the San Jose Mercury News for OS/2 4.0 "WRAP [sic]" in 256 pt font in multiple places. Oops!

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hagbard_c 3 days ago

Nah, that time has passed and there's not much to miss from the base OS. What would be interesting is for IBM to publish the source to the Workplace Shell and the underlying SOM code so it might get a new life running on one of the free *nixes.

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