Extinct IBM OSs (was: Re: [rescue] Personal Progressions)

[s at avoidant.org]

Iggy Drougge wrote:

> Agreed. But you'll have to agree that Big Blue is a lot more tolerable when
> it's been dwarfed by Billysoft.


Not a bit. I've made a living supporting extinct IBM OSs. I actually
worked as a professsional OS/2 admin. I think there've been 27 of us in
the history of modern computing. IBM certified AIX sysadmin, now working
in an all-Linux shop ('cept for my Ultra10/Sol8).


> BTW, there were lots of OS/2 TV ads in 1994-5, when Warp 3 was released. But

That's the one. Where was the Warp 4 campaign? Warp Server for
e-Business? That OS rocked. I doubt it's running at any client sites
anywhere at the moment.


> as soon as Win95 was released, IBM went very quiet.


Yeperoo. They suck. No counter-campaign, no nothing. And selling the
competing OS on their hardware? OS/2 didn't stand a chance.

Me bitter? Nah.


> I've always doubted their claims about being the world's most popular 32-bit
> OS, mind you...


They may have been. If you recall, Windows wasn't fully 32-bit till
when? 1995? 2001?


---sambo