[TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway

Kevin Flanagan flanagannc at gmail.com
Mon Mar 26 15:35:40 EDT 2007


There is still quite a bit of OS/2 in use in business today.  I know of one
fairly large NC based company that uses it still.

On 3/26/07, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OS/2 was the best operating system on its day, that is a combined desktop
> and whatever else system you wanted.  If you looked at the cost of the
> hardware that it ran on it would win against anything else of its time
> hands
> down.  I remember when my Win 3.1/95 friends started to talk about the
> "multitasking" functionality of their operating systems.  Ha-ha!  I
> cranked
> up ever app under the sun and showed them what real multitasking was all
> about.
>
> And don't get me started on REXX.  :)
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