| ▲ | egorfine a day ago |
| > Windows 3.1 [] not that there were many alternatives at that time OS/2 was more popular than Windows 3.1. Update: or maybe it wasn't. Seems like different bubbles had different mainstream OS. |
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| ▲ | linuxhiker a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Oh man, the good old days. Running Windows apps in OS/2 and having OS/2 run them faster because it was true 32bit. |
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| ▲ | wolfi1 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| OS/2 more popular, not in my part of Europe, although it had its fan base. there were even OS/2 (Warp) freebie cd-roms at the time. I was quite fond of it, but Win 95 killed it |
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| ▲ | pjmlp a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It certainly wasn't in Europe, plus it required more expensive hardware. Back in 1992, it would had cost me about an extra 500 euros on today's money. |
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| ▲ | huhtenberg a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| OS/2 was _incredibly_ rare UI- and UX-wise. Very frustrating to use. As if they copied Windows, but somehow copied only 80% of it with some really common bits missing. |
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| ▲ | AnimalMuppet a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Source? That's sure not the way I remember it. I don't think I ever saw OS/2 outside of in computer stores. I don't think I ever saw a single customer actually using it, either professionally or on a home computer. Sure, that's anecdote. Do you have data? |
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| ▲ | SoftTalker a day ago | parent | next [-] | | OS/2 was somewhat popular in corporate settings that were already "IBM shops." And I saw a bit of it in academia/scientific workplaces. Never knew anyone who ran it at home. | | |
| ▲ | svennek a day ago | parent [-] | | I ran it at home as a teenager, as I got a free Warp cd at a store (when they cancelled the product). Ran it for a few days, then went back to windows (95 likely) and later linux.... |
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| ▲ | egorfine a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Nah, no data. Too lazy to dig around. I vividly remember that in my bubble OS/2 was running everywhere. Literally everybody used it, me included. We considered Windows a joke. Some networking software that we used (Fidonet) was literally OS/2 only. But then I remember how OS/2 was dying a slow death while Windows 95 rose. So yes, an anecdote it is. | | |
| ▲ | AnimalMuppet a day ago | parent [-] | | Well, I asked, because I'm also too lazy to dig around for data. So, it's hard for me to complain... [Edit: All right, I did a very superficial digging, and didn't get an apples-to-apples comparison. But it said that OS/2 sold 2.5 million desktop and 340,000 server versions in 1996. Windows 3.1 sold over 3 million copies within the first three months of its release in 1992. So by 1996, OS/2 may have been more popular than Windows 3.1, because the Windows world had moved on to Win95.] | | |
| ▲ | flomo a day ago | parent [-] | | IBM did a ton of consumer advertising for OS/2 while Windows 95 was delayed. (There even was an OS/2 Warp college bowl game.) So they moved some copies, but it probably mostly just people like me messing around. |
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