Comments on: Big Changes out Redmond Way http://tottinge.blogsome.com/2006/06/22/big-changes-out-redmond-way/ Tim Ottinger on Christianity, freedom, software, podcasts, and really hot-looking guitars. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:53:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Kris Cook http://tottinge.blogsome.com/2006/06/22/big-changes-out-redmond-way/#comment-406 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:19:59 +0100 http://tottinge.blogsome.com/2006/06/22/big-changes-out-redmond-way/#comment-406 As OS/2 matured, it was increasingly stable and fast. WHAT? I implemented several dozen Lotus Notes servers for GM, all running (if you can call it that) on OS/2. Every problem we ever had (well, aside from the IBM junk hardware they ran on) was OS-related. Memory leaks IN the OS, lockups, mystery reboots...yuck. I understand that OS/2 Warp was a better product, but by then, they'd pretty much poisoned their own well. Now, the NEXT operating system...there was a gem. As, actually, was TSR's OS/9...sigh. A drink for the living, a toast to the dead. As OS/2 matured, it was increasingly stable and fast.

WHAT? I implemented several dozen Lotus Notes servers for GM, all running (if you can call it that) on OS/2. Every problem we ever had (well, aside from the IBM junk hardware they ran on) was OS-related. Memory leaks IN the OS, lockups, mystery reboots…yuck. I understand that OS/2 Warp was a better product, but by then, they’d pretty much poisoned their own well.

Now, the NEXT operating system…there was a gem. As, actually, was TSR’s OS/9…sigh. A drink for the living, a toast to the dead.

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