Well, THIS OS/2 was in three boxes of diskettes, full ones, and the only
Win95 I ever saw on floppies was on 21 of them.
I guess that judge Jackson needs an update, since he's convinced that
Windows is the only real OS out there.
Dick
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From: <THETechnoid_at_home.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: OT! RE: Nuke Richmond (Long)
> Yup, back then it shipped on guess how many disks? Thirteen 1.44mb
> floppies. Three years later, Windows 95 shiped on guess how many disks?
> Yup, thirteen 1.44 floppies and it did less.
>
> Back in those days, the main complaint was performance on lame hardware.
> It was excellent on a 486dx but much less than a 386dx and it was too slow
> to use (patiencewise -I had a friend who ran Warp Connect on his 386sx.
> Even I didn't understand THAT. My 486dx2/66 was snappy with 24mb ram.
> His crawled with the same amount. It didn't beat his disk up, it was just
> glacial on is 386sx.
>
> Basicly system requirements were low, but much higher if you wanted a
> snappy system. Three years later, 95 didn't perform very well on a 386sx
> either.
>
> As far as killing the OS, it never died. It still does the vast majority
> of the worlds banking. You don't hear much about it because it rarely
> breaks. It isn't unusual for a countries banking system to buy tens of
> thousands of seats in one fell swoop. Recently this happened in Germany
> and in Brazil when both countries chose OS/2 Warp to run thier nationwide
> financial systems. That is one heck of a compliment to a 'dead' operating
> system.
>
> Just do a websearch for any function under the sun and see how many hits
> you get for OS/2. It is really an eye-opener how well supported and strong
> the OS/2 community is. Thank goodness for me because I adopted it as my
> main OS in 1992.
>
> You can buy the latest greatest desktop version (a slightly scaled down
> version of Warp Server for E-Business) from BMT Micro via the web. It
> really is worth a look. It is a bootable CD - I havn't installed from
> floppies since 1993. When OS/2 got 'Warped' with version 3, a cd install
> was the only practical way. Till this day though you can still run off a
> set of 80 floppies and install that way but it is so much easier to just
> hang a cdrom off the poor cd-less machine......
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeff
>
>
> In <001901c07d11$9030b0c0$1192fea9_at_idcomm.com>, on 01/12/01
> at 10:54 PM, "Richard Erlacher" <edick_at_idcomm.com> said:
>
> >My one and only encounter with OS/2 was in '94 or so, and when I found
> >that it took my system adminsitrator almost a whole day to install the
> >contents of the five or six pounds of diskettes, I decided it would be my
> >last. It took me about 45 minutes to restore the DOS/Win3.11.
>
> >I guess it doesn't take much to kill an OS.
>
> >Dick
>
>
>
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