I never got my grubby hands on OS/2
#1
Posted 20 July 2006 - 04:16 PM
I went home empty handed.
#2
Posted 21 July 2006 - 07:02 AM
Still, it is still ten years ahead of Windows.
#3
Posted 21 July 2006 - 12:08 PM
It's too bad OS/2 was a very rare OS to find where I live, I knew a few who knew a friend or two who had it, but was still away from public acess..
I do remember seeing the first release from IBM (OS/1?) wich has some snazzy graphics and handling of things that was also eye candy..
And this was indeed a long time ago, very similar to these days now that I've come to remember it..
#4
Posted 21 July 2006 - 03:50 PM
before you let the needle cut the disk
Boy, was it an ancient CD-ROM writer!
jaclaz
#5
Posted 23 July 2006 - 07:04 AM
#6
Posted 26 July 2006 - 03:47 PM
When you say 16 mb as ridiculous do you mean too much or too little? I remember spending a bunle of money to add 80387 co-processor & 16 mb ram so that my daughter could run Autocad while studying her engineering. Today I can get a fairly good pc for that addon cost.The closest I came was at a computer show, where lots of excited chaps were queueing up to watch a demo with three or four one inch square avi clips, all running simultaneously on a 486 DX33. Stunned, we were. We were considering investing, when someone asked the awkward question, and the truth came out: it was using a ridiculous 16 meg of ram.
I went home empty handed.
When I installed Warp 3 with vlb graphic card & vlb ide controller on a 66mhz 486, it was practically flying.
So far as the price goes for the price I paid for a 2x cdrom, sound blaster 16 sound card & active cum passive speaker set from creative I can get athlon64 + mobo.
#7
Posted 27 July 2006 - 11:56 AM
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