KanceptFilled 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.
Amanda
David H. McCoy@pronounshe @Kancept @everythingalsocan
If it was possible for a man to love an operating system, I LOVED OS/2.
I still miss it.
Pun Boleh@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....)
@everythingalsocan @pronounshe @Kancept
💯
They just nailed so many of the UX elements.
If only someone other than IBM was at the helm…
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
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@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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