• @krimson@feddit.nl
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    89 months ago

    My dad ran IBM OS/2 Warp for a while on our PC. Rock stable. Shame it never really took off.

    • @mindlight@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      OS/2 3.0 “Warp” was a little too much ahead of its time and had the exact same problem that Windows Mobile had: no applications.

      IBM tried to solve that with Windows emulation but it was a headache from the start and often have a buggy experience.

      It didn’t help that the real world hardest requirements were off the charts as compared to Windows 95 (still 16-bit MS-Dos based and not even close to what OS/2 was).

      IBM did everything right from an engineering perspective but failed miserably on what the market wanted.

      It never stood a chance. IBM had always been great at delivering solutions that was well engineered. What IBM has n-e-v-e-r been good at is marketing and understanding the volume market.