Ever wondered why lots of senior (ok, 'Ancient'...) IT retirees harbour a special dislike for Windows ?
This was an eye-opener to devious dealings of a certain company, back then. Somehow, I don't think his business ethics has improved.
Windows’ Hidden Self Destruct Code | Nostalgia Nerd - YouTube
And a lighter moment,,, Why Does USB Keep Changing? | Nostalgia Nerd - YouTube
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2000 D2 TD5 Auto: Tins
1994 D1 300TDi Manual: Dave
1980 SIII Petrol Tray: Doris
OKApotamus #74
Nanocom, D2 TD5 only.
Actually, I remember those times very well. I was trying for a different direction in the early 90s. Learning TurboPascal and trying to learn COBOL. MS were already beginning to dominate, and were on life support, regardless that their GUI was far superior to anyone else's offerings. At the school it was all MS Dos, with Windows 3 appearing. We also had limited access to a VAX system running UNIX. To me, MS Dos sucked. At that time DR Dos seemed more stable. IBM's OS/2 was almost revolutionary for the time. I had both, as did most of the students. Most of them were 15/20 years younger than me and ran rings around me, but still I learned. I learned that DOS was limited and that Windows was a total rip off of Macintosh OS. I also learned that Windows was a very poor patch overlay over DOS. The guy we aren't mentioning stole the idea from . I also learned that serious computing needs UNIX, which is WAY more powerful than anything MS has to offer.
It was MS's deal with IBM that killed Digital Research. It also killed OS/2, which ironically came from IBM. It also very nearly killed IBM itself. MS, once it had achieved near dominance in the emerging PPC market, licensed DOS to anyone who could throw a few boards in a beige box. Thus the proliferation of expensive 2/3/4/86 POS boxes began. ( IBM was in the business of selling beige boxes, for a good profit margin ). Most deserved to be in landfill before they were sold to bewildered consumers. With a kaching! for every MS license. MS killed everyone. Except of course UNIX, which is far superior to anything MS does in every way. Then there's . Ironically, it was MS that helped pull out of bankruptcy, having helped put them there in the fiest place. For reason's Im not sure even Bill Gates understands, MS developed a version of the Office Suite that was better than the one they offered their own Windows customers, for the then OS X. So, you could have Office as well as a vastly superior GUI on stable, high end equipment, with level build quality?
OS/X, more recently macOS, and Linux all run UNIX. Better. Hands down...
Ducks.......
JayTee
Nullus Anxietus
Getting involved in discussions is the best way to learn.
2000 D2 TD5 Auto: Tins
1994 D1 300TDi Manual: Dave
1980 SIII Petrol Tray: Doris
OKApotamus #74
Nanocom, D2 TD5 only.
OS/2 is still alive and running as well
IBM sold the rights and it has been on sold a couple of times...
up until very recently i used to support them but since my semiretirement i have had to let go of many of the little things i used to keep an eye on..
ArcaOS 5.0 from Arca Noae is the new release of OS/2 for the 21st century
i used to run a multiline BBS on os/2 with 16 inbound lines... windows could only mange to run 4 and even then it struggled
them were the days...
actually the first iteration of AULRO ran on os/2 ...
1998 Discovery 300TDi Manual SE7
1996 Discovery 300TDi Auto
2012 SZ Territory TX 2.7TDCi
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- a warning from Adolf Hitler
"If you don't have a sense of humour, you probably don't have any sense at all!" -- a wise observation by someone else
'If everyone colludes in believing that war is the norm, nobody will recognize the imperative of peace." -- Anne Deveson
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” - Pericles
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." Marcus Aurelius
The spirit of OS/2 lives on in today's MS Windows. MS used the development code during their joint venture with IBM and released Windows NT, which was fundamentally the MS version of OS/2. The original Windows died with ME and all new versions thereafter were derived from the NT side of things.
Hmm. These days I'm lucky if I can write an AppleScript. But I may have to see if I can run OS/2 in emulation, for the nostalgia.
FWIW, I followed when they went UNIX after they bought NeXt and with it Steve Jobs. I still have that first Mac, a G4 Cube. I have another iMac which runs Linux Mint, although I'm not sure why. This one, while unsupported by runs Monterey 12.1, so I still play a little. stopped supporting this iMac with Big Sur, but with a tweak or two it runs Monterey just fine.
JayTee
Nullus Anxietus
Getting involved in discussions is the best way to learn.
2000 D2 TD5 Auto: Tins
1994 D1 300TDi Manual: Dave
1980 SIII Petrol Tray: Doris
OKApotamus #74
Nanocom, D2 TD5 only.
1998 Discovery 300TDi Manual SE7
1996 Discovery 300TDi Auto
2012 SZ Territory TX 2.7TDCi
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- a warning from Adolf Hitler
"If you don't have a sense of humour, you probably don't have any sense at all!" -- a wise observation by someone else
'If everyone colludes in believing that war is the norm, nobody will recognize the imperative of peace." -- Anne Deveson
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” - Pericles
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." Marcus Aurelius
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