At 07:21 AM 12/10/2004, James Knott wrote:
Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
A few years ago, I attended a Warp Server course. One of the students didn't even know how to put a floppy disk in the drive!
I can't believe it. An honest to God OS/2 guru on this list. Where the heck were you 5 years ago when I couldn't get Warp Server to install! (hung on the 3rd diskette IIRC). :-) IBM told me I that wasn't a bug so if I wanted to learn how to install I had to buy a service contract. Actually I really ought to be thankful since that was the moment I said "Yeah right!" and decided to take a look at Linux. BTW, I still have OS/2 running on half a dozen boxes (legacy apps and all). I actually still like OS/2 and have never forgiven IBM for screwing up the best 32 bit OS of it's time.
5 years ago, I was working at IBM Canada, doing 3rd level support & integration testing.
Yes, it was the best desktop system and in many ways is still better than Linux. I have seen nothing that even comes close to what the WPS (desktop) can do. And multitasking was far better than anything in Windows and in some ways even better than Linux. I still have one system running OS/2 here.
until we lost support of an os/2 package (programmer finally retired) there were a lot of emergency services using it. you can guess where they went (and wished they hadn't ever more). on the other hand I still tripple boot with os/2 , win98 and 8.2 as I still find os/2's db2 still the most robust database for multidimensional calculations. scsijon