Re:OS/2 2.0, Summer ’91 Edition
by drsim on Sunday April 09, 2017 @12:42PM
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OS/2 Warp was extremely slow to boot on my 486DX2-66 (16MB RAM if I remember correctly). It was our family's first computer and the joke was we could turn the computer on, make a cup of tea and do a bunch of chores before it was ready to use.
Hardly any software (not to mention games!) was available for OS/2. We only used Lotus natively. The fact you could run Windows 3.11 from within OS/2 saved it from being discarded earlier.
I set up dual boot into Windows 3.11 and it loaded an order of magnitude faster.
OS/2 was perhaps technically architected better, but for real-world home use: useless.
Hardly any software (not to mention games!) was available for OS/2. We only used Lotus natively. The fact you could run Windows 3.11 from within OS/2 saved it from being discarded earlier.
I set up dual boot into Windows 3.11 and it loaded an order of magnitude faster.
OS/2 was perhaps technically architected better, but for real-world home use: useless.