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OS/2 was the best single-user OS ever written. I could print while downloading while formatting a floppy and it wouldn't miss a beat. Despite having an incredibly sophisticated UI that puts modern session management to shame it looked like an 8th grade class art project. And it was all sold by a company of brilliant engineers whose marketers couldn't sell water in a desert, all while Microsoft made the world want more sand.

Warp, you are missed.

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CP/M Forever

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True that. 2.2 for the record. None of that newfangled 3.0 crap with timestamps and what not.

Kildall ruled.

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Ngl, the sheer number of lockup and freezes that I experienced drove me straight into the arms of Linux.

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I'll be more impressed if some company supports TOPS 10.

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I don't think there are many pdp-10 left in the world. My pdp-11 at AT&T were almost dead when I left in 2001.

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One of the last computer fairs I went to, they were flogging OS/2 ?Warp? for cheap. Boxes and boxes of it at every second booth.

Never used it extensively but always had kind of a high opinion of it. Too bad it's mostly fallen by the wayside.

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I had it installed briefly on a machine. Windows 95 changed the way things looked in the computer world and OS/2 didn't look look that.

I seem to remember that it didn't even have an Ethernet stack in it, so you couldn't even connect it to anything.

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Token Ring was it's out-of-the-box thing. Highly deterministic network and was IBM's baby(some babies are ugly, and that's ok). IP stack became available. My first real Internet account was via a PPP service IBM had for a while catering to OS/2 users.

But 74240,1042 holds the title of first online me. Never did meet Rev. Stang like I wanted to.

Edit: Just noticed the Tops-10 comment. And here we have a what began life as a PPN. Small world.