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TheFLY · 05-19-2003, 02:01 AM

I remember when you could choose from like 13 modems 2400 modems... I had a Hayes, a couple of USR HST C's, something with MNP 5... and I had a 2400 with a v.42bis...

I was multitasking before anyone... I had betas of DESQView and the first preemp ever on a PC -- OS/2 1.0... First preemp ever of DOS windows OS/2 2.0... DESQView was hot but it didn't have a graphic interface... Then OS/2 fucked up because of poor marketing and a boring interface -- Gates was smart to target the home... IBM was still stuck thinking of "business" as the target audience... I'm sure OS/2 is still running some really heavy powered stuff even today -- mission critical stuff -- but who really knows... OS/2 officially died when I was working for them... I saw their last stitch effort -- it was like watching a burning ship sink slowly over two weeks they worked on the kernal insane hours -- they had their best people working on it... but it was pointless from beginning -- OS/2 was just boring and gray. I asked them why it was so boring -- they told me it was because they did a study on workplace environment and found that gray was the most pleasant and easy on the eyes...

05-19-2003, 02:01 AM
TheFLY So Fucking Banned Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: http://www.thefly.net/ --- Quit your job and live off steady traffic. Posts: 11,856	I remember when you could choose from like 13 modems 2400 modems... I had a Hayes, a couple of USR HST C's, something with MNP 5... and I had a 2400 with a v.42bis... I was multitasking before anyone... I had betas of DESQView and the first preemp ever on a PC -- OS/2 1.0... First preemp ever of DOS windows OS/2 2.0... DESQView was hot but it didn't have a graphic interface... Then OS/2 fucked up because of poor marketing and a boring interface -- Gates was smart to target the home... IBM was still stuck thinking of "business" as the target audience... I'm sure OS/2 is still running some really heavy powered stuff even today -- mission critical stuff -- but who really knows... OS/2 officially died when I was working for them... I saw their last stitch effort -- it was like watching a burning ship sink slowly over two weeks they worked on the kernal insane hours -- they had their best people working on it... but it was pointless from beginning -- OS/2 was just boring and gray. I asked them why it was so boring -- they told me it was because they did a study on workplace environment and found that gray was the most pleasant and easy on the eyes...