-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Larry Stotler wrote:
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:54 AM, L. V. Lammert
wrote: Nah, ... he needs Windoze 3.1. I actually have a set of floppies I'd be happy to send.
I'd rather go to OS/2. Now that was a solid, stable system.
Not when first released .... some parts of the API did not work properly (i.e. as described in the docs) for a couple of years... and without the web trying to find out what the hell was going on from IBM even as a 'privileged' customer was damn near impossible.... One of the reasons OS/2 lost to Windows 3.x is that it was very unfriendly to much legacy DOS stuff and there was little available to replace these on OS/2 originally... (and an OS without usable apps is a useful as a chocolate teapot, no.. correction... you can eat a chocolate teapot so the latter is more useful :-) )... At the institution I was based in about 90 days of receiving a bundle of OS/2 based PS/2s at least three quarters ended up running DOS/Windows 3.0.. When the problems were eventually sorted it was very useful, but by then the intended audience had left the auditorium. Something which maybe those in charge of openSuSE releases need to bear in mind.... - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkm6HIsACgkQasN0sSnLmgLYswCgnqk4QE7ThADUSKjwgqSKcOlU EFQAoNVhJQHdWOxKNa8km2CxG82A3bNV =SleB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org