Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 4th Dec 2001 17:47 UTC
IBM's OS/2 has a great history as a workstation operating system, it was a major alternative OS in the '90s. At its peak time in the mid-'90s OS/2 had about 2 million users but the Windows NT and Windows 95 releases broke its further development. This year Serenity Systems has released a new client version of OS/2. This article will introduce you to what OS/2 is all about. You will learn its history, its user interface, and its power under the hood. The article is also accompanied by a number of screenshots.
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> OS/2 does not exercise the MIME types for the file type problem, but rather uses the extension of the application
On the contrary. The file types can be marked in the Extended Attributes of the file, and they are user-editable.
So you can have an HTML file labelled at the same time as types "HTML", "text/html" (and "texto/html" if you have a Spanish version of OS/2 that somebody translated too much). You can label them as "HTML following some W3C Standard" o even "Cake recipe".
Though there are only certain types installed by IBM. And applications sometimes install their types. You can be over-organized by using your own types.
The problem comes when the association engine tries to make sense of all the associations. If you have different applications associated to each type or extension (you can associate to "???EXAMPLE???.TX?" or even "*") or the applications are in a different order for each association, it's up to WPS to decide what to show in the right-click menu. And since it's so distributed and there are only 10 options shown (in Warp 4, maybe it is different in eCS), it can be very difficult to get right.