28 May
2000
28 May
'00
10:21 p.m.
It's the APPS and the moving Win32s target they
tried to support.
The killer was when MS made Office not run under OS/2.
May have hurt the market but, no great loss. MS Office is another plague
on the world.
OS/2 was slow -- glacial on the early 386's without
a LOT of memory
16meg was VERY rare then). IBM used it internally (v2.11) on PS/2 25's
with 12-16mb. It was slow loading and glacial loading apps. Many
secretaries booted it with all their windows apps loaded so they didn't
have to wait for programs to load. They often ran Ami Pro v3.1 under
win3.1
since the Lotus Smartsuite was BEHIND the windows
version for features.
As a Win3.1 user it was no better on 386s and really didn't run usefully
with
less than 4mb and really wanted 8mb to behave well.
I'd bet they're switching to WinNT or Win9x
(laptops) and going to
Microsoft Word for customer compatibility in a lot of cases. We were
Win9x is a mess but can be made to work, WinNT4/workstation is better
but you MUST be at SP4 or higher. It's the MS apps that are a pox on the
world. ;-)
Allison