Comment Re:A reminder... (Score 1) 94
I used OS/2 for a few months in the early 90s and it was uglier than dog vomit. I dropped it entirely it when it wouldn't provide drivers for my new Lexmark printer and that was back when Lexmark were still calling themselves part of IBM. One of my relatives by marriage was using OS/2 extensively ten years later in his job as a systems programmer for IBM and he swore that it was the best operating system he had ever used.
Curiously once I dropped OS/2 I tried three different distros of Linux, I actually paid money for them in those days before the Internet was opened to the public. I could not get a single distro to install even after multiple attempts at each one with its pile of floppies - CD drives cost $400+ so no-one I knew had one then. The experience put me off Linux for ten years.
They were dark days and the only choice was Mac or MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 and to get a game to run required changing your config.sys file for each different game.
Curiously once I dropped OS/2 I tried three different distros of Linux, I actually paid money for them in those days before the Internet was opened to the public. I could not get a single distro to install even after multiple attempts at each one with its pile of floppies - CD drives cost $400+ so no-one I knew had one then. The experience put me off Linux for ten years.
They were dark days and the only choice was Mac or MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 and to get a game to run required changing your config.sys file for each different game.