it is plagiarizing a copypasta from an AI and not citing a source.

http://www.catb.org/esr/writin...

"OS/2 had both a CLI and GUI. Most of the positive legendry around OS/2 was about the Workplace Shell (WPS), the OS/2 desktop. Some of this technology was licensed from the developers of the AmigaOS Workbench,[29] a pioneering GUI desktop that still as of 2003 has a loyal fan base in Europe. This is the one area of the design in which OS/2 achieved a level of capability which Unix arguably has not yet matched. The WPS was a clean, powerful, object-oriented design with understandable behavior and good extensibility. Years later it would become a model for Linux's GNOME project."

Who am I to argue with ESR?

Sorry, my dyslexia is acting up.

Everyone wanted Windows 3.X because it overlayed over DOS. OS/2 was its own DOS. BBS software was written to run in Windows DOS Boxes for multilines.

There is ReactOS: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Freactos.org%2F to use instead of Windows 11. It is more like Windows XP uses a smaller footprint runs faster than Windows 10, and uses older versions of MS Office like 2010. Since it uses Windows Drivers it should be compatible with non-Windows 11 hardware.

Another choice is HaikuOS based on BeOS: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.haiku-os.org%2F it runs BeOS apps and will have WINE ported to it later to run Windows apps.

A third choice is AROS: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Faros.sourceforge.io%2F based on AmigaOS 3.X and ported to WINTEL PCs and other systems. It runs Amiga programs.

I set up family and friends on GNU/LINUX Ubuntu and LibreOffice just fine. Windows 10 EOS ends in 2025 and there are a lot of PCs that can't run Windows 11 so they are thinking of going to Ubuntu.

I spent $1500 out of my savings to get an I9 PowerSpec PC from Microcenter that has Windows 11 Pro preinstalled. It runs fast with an M2 SSD 1T hard drive. My old Windows 10 PC will become an Ubuntu PC.

There was an ACE standard to use Portable OS/2 on MIPS devices and use MIPS expansion cards in PCs to turn them into RISC workstations. All it needed was ARC BIOS and could run 286 DOS binaries in emulation. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvirtuallyfun.com%2F2021%2F... Has the NT 4.0 version of MIPS before Microsoft abandoned it.

According to Eric S. Rayman of "The History of Unix" IBM and Commodore traded technology. IBM got the GUI Workbench which became Presentation Manager, and Commodore got the REXX language to develop apps on. I tried adding this to Wikipedia's article on OS/2 and Amiga but Pagemisters quickly reverted it even if I cited that book, because Rayman is non-notable they claim.

I was expecting Python, C++, JavaScript, or Java. Instead, it is a WEB-BASED STUFF. I learned in BASIC at that grade level on a Commodore 64 and UCSD Pascal on an Apple //e.

"internet is full of shitbags" isn't on topic. Corporations are full of amoral, cocaine soaked greedy, selfich bastards with absolutely no empathy is.

the corporations are full of shitbags, news at 11

FTFY. Oh, and an offtopic educational link for you grocers and foreigners and others who don't understand English:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.angryflower.com%2F24...
I see enough of that shit on Farcebook. Note, I've been staying away from /. for the same reason, the normals have taken over the site.

That's why they changed it from "Unidentified Flying Object" to "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena". The one I saw a half century ago was certainly not a space ship, unless Douglas Adams was right about scale, because it was smaller than a basketball. It was bright and fuzzy, rode next to my car for a couple of miles until I crossed a stream, when it zigged at 45 MPH at a right angle and followed the stream.

I wondered what it was for years before I learned about ball lightning, which is what it had to have been. My guess is ball lightning is a lot more common up there where the fighter jets play.

Well, I can certainly see how the Ukrainians are so bitter about "what the USA did in Ukraine for last 10 years". They're positively throwing themselves at you.

No, wait; that's a javelin.

can kill an old game if the domain name for the DRM check goes down. Horrors if the server the game connects to is taken down and unsupported.

Buy the game, but run the pirated version. Kill the DRM and Online Activation.

It is the Post-Intel era.