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Re:OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition by frozenport on Saturday October 21, 2023 @03:52PM (#37969978)
Nope.

It kept crashing because the GUI message pump was essentially shared.

This is just the tip of the iceberge, there were a lot of bad technical decisions that made it unstable.

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Re:OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition by mschaef on Sunday October 22, 2023 @09:14AM (#37975080)
Comparing Windows NT with OS/2, I'd totally agree with you.

Comparing Windows 95 with OS/2, there was way too much 16-bit legacy in Windows. Major parts of Windows 95 were still 16 bit code and protected with a giant lock serializing all access. Windows 95 was a great tactical solution, but not a great OS.

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Re:OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition by frozenport on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @01:06AM (#37995002)
Clearly it was more important that a bug in a user mode GUI app didn't render the system unusable compared to having 16 bit code and a few locks in a mostly serial environment.

The story of OS/2 is a project that dragged on for decades with the benefits only harvested when Windows NT put a GUI and app ecosystem on it.

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