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Re:OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition by jandrese on Friday October 20, 2023 @10:42AM (#37956783)
As someone who had OS/2 Warp installed on a machine for a bit I'm somewhat dubious about the claim that it was just plain better than Win95. My memories of OS/2 Warp included locking up the entire GUI when an application (a goddamn notepad application at that!) crashed and finding it amazingly unintuitive in so many respects. On top of that everything it did felt sluggish, even on fast hardware of the era (a Pentium 75 with 16GB of memory).

When Windows 95 came out there really wasn't a question as to who was going to be the thing going forward. Even beyond Microsoft's already dominant position in the marketplace.

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Re:OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition by qup on Friday October 20, 2023 @11:41AM (#37957681)
> 16GB of memory

Speaking of memory, I think yours is failing! Ain't no way!

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Re:OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition by pgeorgi on Friday October 20, 2023 @12:20PM (#37958135)
Indeed: Pentium 75 is P54C and from 1995, while PAE (Address Extension to get beyond 4GB) was only introduced in the Pentium Pro (P6) series in 1995.
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Re:OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition by jandrese on Friday October 20, 2023 @05:15PM (#37961632)
Yeah, 16MB. Orders of magnitude get lost easily when talking about computer technology. Hell, the computer I owned before that (A Commodore 64) had 64KB of memory and that was a lot when it came out. And now 16GB is probably the most common memory size you see on PCs in the wild.
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