Love the site style, love the content.

This makes me happier than it probably should.

This is great, though I really wish there were a converter/viewer for 8088 or V20.

I think about this quite often. OS/2 was amazing. It deserved to win. Honestly, the biggest problem at the time was that Microsoft was much more a bunch of cowboys, while IBM insisted on near perfection. The two sides simply couldn’t agree on anything. Microsoft’s “quality” was focused on being “hardcore” where they wanted things to be lean and quick, quality be damned. IBM was more focused on having very few bugs. If that meant it required more hardware, that simply served their bottom line.

Many people feel that way, but it had multitasking, its own APIs, its own memory management, and so on. Disk access was still handled by MS-DOS, but that was it. I’d say that it’s an OS as it is far more than a shell, but we can also use Microsoft’s terminology from the time, “operating environment.”

I mean… way to combine the best things in life. Donuts, classic computers. My kind of people.

Very good write up. Thanks for sharing.

It’s really sad how many pieces of our digital past have disappeared. As new versions of things come out, people tend to simply discard the old thing.

This is… absolutely atrocious and it is also completely off-topic for this site.

Author here: Would it not be fair to say that black and white WIMP with an emphasis on desktop publishing is an imitation of Xerox, especially when they were paying for the privilege?