Hey Joel,

I, too, was a huge OS/2 fan!!! You're right, it was excellent for FPDOS apps. I started using it right around the same time as you ... as they say, it did Windows better than Windows!!! I still have the old PC that is running it, but I haven't fired the thing up in many, many years (I'm keeping it for sentimental reasons <g>). I was dragged, kicking and screaming, to Windows 98 way back when, but I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for OS/2. =)

~~Bonnie


>The end of OS/2 is finally here. Seems like we've heard that before, and we'll hear it again at the end of 2005 and 2006 when IBM's end of life dates pass. Here are some articles talking about it:
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>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1837763,00.asp
>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1837761,00.asp
>http://www-306.ibm.com/software/os/warp/
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>OS/2 was my primary OS for 5-6 years. I started using OS/2 2.1 for Windows around 1992-93 and fell in love. I stayed with it until Warp 4 around 1998. I had my first web browsing experience on the OS/2 browser. It was excellent for FoxPro 2.6 DOS & Windows cross-platform development. Eventually, I moved on to Visual FoxPro development, which meant switching to Windows NT 4.0, what I consider first version of Windows that remotely resembled a suitable replacement for OS/2.
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>It was very frustrating to watch lesser, unstable versions of Windows grow in popularity while the clearly superior OS/2 was losing users. This was due in part to Microsoft's monopolistic practices and exclusive deals, but mostly because IBM didn't have the whole company behind the product and didn't market it properly (sound familiar?). Watching my favorite apps (OS/2, Lotus AmiPro, etc.) being forcibly replaced with Microsoft products created a lot of Anti-MS sentiment back then. I've gotten over it for the most part, but it still creeps up from time to time <g>.