The second issue of the quarterly OS2eCS eZine was published on April 1, 2006. Articles include: ‘Developing for Fun with OS/2 and OpenWatcom’, ‘Surfing in the Colorful Chinese World with OS/2 and eComStation’, ‘USB Thumb Drives and Flash Wristbands with eComStation’, and more.
os is dead. get used to it.
Why are you telling us? Shouldn’t you be telling them that?
I’m willing to bet that you also have no use for books or music older than 5 or 10 years, or stuff that isn’t considered ‘popular’ or ‘acceptable’ by 95 percent of the sheeple.
What about old people, do you also cast them aside as having nothing to offer?
🙂
“os is dead. get used to it.”
Don’t worry guys, it’s just the resident anti-OS/2 troll.
I refer you to his last set of rants:
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=13150
Clearly he has not learnt an awful lot about business-centric computing in the interim.
Heh. For very high values of “dead”, obiviously.
OS/2 still runs Lotus SmartSuite, Microsoft’s 16-bit Word and Powerpoint viewers, XFree86, GIMP, Pixel (if you use the Snap drivers), Firefox, Quicken, Thunderbird, Pine, slrn, XFree86, MAME, Links for OS/2, MPXplay, and Doom Legacy.
Not only that, but it’ll burn CDs quite smoothly in the background on a machine that Windows XP won’t even boot on, and all that while formatting a floppy disk at the very same time!
So… What more could a platform possibly do? 🙂
It even has an antialiasing font engine now for those who measure a platform’s value by its ability to render text in a supposedly “pretty” manner.
I’ve used my OS/2 setup for almost ten years now, and other than a fixpak I’ve not had to update much of anything. How useful is your setup from those days?
It thinks I’m deleting all of the text. Using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2
tell me the current market share of os2…..
bwahahahah!