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

[Iggy Drougge]

s skrev:

>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).

Sorry about the Linux shop, but nobody likes a winner, right?

>> 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.

I've seen exactly one (1) mention of Merlin in a print magazine, and that was
five years ago.

>> 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.

Exactly.

>> 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?

And they still dwarfed MacOS or AmigaOS?

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