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   From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   knuttle wrote:   
      
   > On 12/23/2012 7:10 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:   
   >> In message , knuttle   
   >   
   >>>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> I am not against new things in the operating system. In fact I was   
   >>> using   
   >>> OS/2 when most people were extolling the virtue of the first version of   
   >>> Windows. Why because it was far superior to Windows.   
   >>   
   >> In your opinion. (Which Windows are you talking about - 3.1 [or even   
   >> earlier], or the '9x series [95/98/Me]?)   
      
   "First version" isn't something I'd normally consider up for debate... but   
   then, "the first version of Windows" (i.e. Windows 1.0) predates OS/2 by a   
   couple of years. (If you were truly using OS/2 when Windows 1.0 came out, I'd   
   like to borrow your time machine.) As for "extolling the virtue" of Win1, let   
   me qoute Wikipedia (The Web's Largest Source of Disinformation[tm]):   
      
     "[...] when finally released, Windows 1.0 aroused little interest."   
      
   (*I* didn't even hear of Windows until around 1989-ish.)   
      
   Also, the first version of OS/2 was essentially "DOS plus"; no GUI provided   
   until OS/2 1.1, a year and a half after OS/2 1.0, and nearly half a year   
   after the release of Windows 2.1. Until then, any comparison between OS/2 &   
   Windows would've been apples and oranges.   
      
   >>> I gladly upgraded to XP as it was based on part of the code that made   
   >>> OS/2 far superior and stable.   
      
   I'm a bit curious about this. If you upgraded to XP (from what, may I ask?)   
   for that reason, did you switch to NT3.1 when it first came out? It was the   
   first Windows system based on the OS/2 codebase.   
      
   >> So you accepted the new when it meant it wasn't new to you (-:.   
   >   
   > I have worked with FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, DOS, WINDOWS and OS/2   
      
   Oh god. COBOL. I'm so sorry.   
      
   > My first programmable device was a TI-59 calculator. My first computer   
   > was a TI-99/4a, my next was an Apple II? (1983).  The first PC operating   
   > system I used was DOS.  I then got the first Window OS when it replaced   
   > DOS 6.  After using it for a period I bought OS/2 and installed it.   
      
   The first actual Windows OS was NT3. Win16 and the 9x line were just shells   
   on top of DOS. Just sayin'.   
      
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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