KanceptOct 19

Filled in with some books and I think it turned out as a nice solution to getting my office into this closet.

Click the photo to see the good ol #os2 pencil mug still doing its job.

#cloffice

Show threadAmanda

@Kancept I loved, LOVED OS/2 Warp back in the day. I still run it as a virtual machine, but it's hard to find a use for it now.

#OS2

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Show threadKanceptOct 19

@pronounshe yeah, security in browsers and certificate stuff definitely seems like a forced obsolescence of it like many of the better OSes than what we have these days.

If companies would have just kept making what they had better vs reinventing UIs constantly, I feel things would be a lot better.

Show threadDavid H. McCoyOct 21

@pronounshe @Kancept @everythingalsocan

If it was possible for a man to love an operating system, I LOVED OS/2.

I still miss it.

Show threadPun BolehOct 21

@davidhmccoy @pronounshe @Kancept same, never got over it.

With the others it's just not the same. Not even close.

("Still trying to make it work" would sound weird now, but, you know....)

Show threadDavid H. McCoyOct 21

@everythingalsocan @pronounshe @Kancept

💯

They just nailed so many of the UX elements.

If only someone other than IBM was at the helm…

Show threadPun BolehOct 21
@davidhmccoy @pronounshe @Kancept Or even if just CUA91 had somehow survived. (sigh)
Show threadAmandaOct 21
@everythingalsocan @davidhmccoy @Kancept The thing that really sent me head over heals was moving an exe in Warp3 and the OS automatically updating all the shadows. I went to fix them manually and had already been completed.
Show threadDavid H. McCoyOct 21

@pronounshe @everythingalsocan @Kancept

Shadows. EA. Templates. Custom config.sys for specialized DOS boxes. Seamless Win-OS/2 before VMs or containers became cool.

Great stuff.

Show threadPun BolehOct 22

@davidhmccoy @pronounshe @Kancept preemptive multitasking and memory protection (even for Windows 3.x programs), a file system that didn't need defragging, higher priority for active applications, multithreading, ...

and of course the Workplace Shell.  Context menus, drag'n'drop, ....

But most of all: I still remember that light bulb moment when after a few days of wondering why I can't figure out the boundary between program manager and file manager, I finally understood that the whole desktop is the file manager. There was no going back to application centric desktops after that.

Show threadDavid H. McCoyOct 22

@everythingalsocan @pronounshe @Kancept

HPFS was a great filesystem for the time. I installed Warp at my job(about 34 disks, didn’t ask, sneaked it in). It was a Win 3.1 shop.

People were stunned at the multitasking. I ran my dev tools in win-os/2 seamless sessions and if you did Win 3.1 dev, multiple daily crashing and rebooting was a way of life.

/1

Show threadDavid H. McCoyOct 22

@everythingalsocan @pronounshe @Kancept

Under Warp, I kept dev tools in one session, Productivity apps in a second, DOS utils in separate DOS VMs. When the dev tools crashed, restart that Win-OS/2.

Wanted to print? Full on preemptive multitasking compared to the Windows people watching the hourglass or rebooting.

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