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Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server

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On 2018-11-08 5:58 p.m., Dave Yeo wrote:
> SilverSlimer wrote:
>> I never had the chance to use OS/2 for any significant length of time
>> since my hardware - when OS/2 was still competing - wasn't good enough
>> to run it and because the system itself seemed fairly counterintuitive
>> to me. Add the fact that software was scarce and there truly was little
>> reason to use it, IMO. My experience with IBM itself, at the time, was
>> also fairly negative so I'm not convinced that the PC platform would
>> have been better off had it won the race over Windows either.
> 
> I used it with substandard hardware (386 with 4MBs) by stripping it 
> down. No WPS was the big thing. Originally I used it as a DOS 
> replacement and it worked very well. Wanted to download stuff from a BBS 
> while doing other stuff, OS/2 just worked. Wanted to run 2+ Win3.1 
> programs without one crashing and taking the other down, OS/2 allowed 
> that, while downloading from a BBS.
> Generally OS/2 was a better DOS and Windows. Used a better file system 
> with better caching, making it faster much of the time. Want to run and 
> multi-task multiple Win (and/or DOS) programs, OS/2 did it well.
> Eventually I got more ram and a faster processor (33Mhz 486 DLC that 
> plugged into my 386 board) and started using the WPS and native programs 
> and never looked back.
> Typing this on OS/2 running on real hardware.

If I remember correctly, I only really used it on a 386DX-33 with 4MB of 
RAM and I was underwhelmed but I definitely didn't strip it down to make 
it more usable. I was also in my mid-teens at the time and I wasn't 
concerned with the computer being useful as much as I was with it doing 
nifty things. It's too bad it didn't become more popular than it did but 
IBM can only really blame itself.

However, OS/2 is still technically being developed as far as I know. 
Dunno if eComstation is still the only company providing OS/2 support 
though. Apparently, someone else is producing an OS/2-based system.


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Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends   it to Chinese server "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2018-11-07 18:58 +0000
  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-07 18:04 -0500
    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-11-07 17:13 -0800
    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2018-11-08 14:58 -0800
      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-08 21:19 -0500
      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-08 21:25 -0500

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