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Comment Re:Portable OS/2 (Score 1) 98

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?

Comment Re:It's because you can't just pirate windows anym (Score 1) 188

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.

Comment Re:It's because you can't just pirate windows anym (Score 1) 188

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.

Comment Portable OS/2 (Score 2) 98

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.

Submission + - Microsoft to Kill OneDrive (thurrott.com)

joshuark writes: Microsoft plans on killing OneDrive support for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 sometime in early 2022. This will definitely drive upgrades for Windows.

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