Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines

Re:Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines by thrownaway954 on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @05:10PM (#23408804)

an operating system made through a joint venture between microsoft and ibm. it was the predecessor to WinNT. it could run dos, win16, win32, posix as well as os/2 native apps. it really was an amazing operating system at the time with a VERY passionate community behind it. watch some of the videos for a good take on it:

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-history/os2-videos-1987/

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Re:Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines by uryga on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @07:30PM (#23410326)

i learned about OS/2 from the 'Doing Windows' series. really recommend it, it's a great read about the history behind all this stuff, the computing landscape of that period, and why OS/2 was a huge achievement.

https://www.filfre.net/2018/06/doing-windows-part-1-ms-dos-a...

the road to "run DOS stuff [without being DOS]" was very long, and paved with many gravestones... i think OS/2 comes in in part 5 or 6, but i really recommend reading the whole thing.

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