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The real reason OS/2 flopped shaped modern software (www.theregister.com)

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[–] finley@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

OS/2 warp had plenty of driver issues of its own at the time.

[–] humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

@finley yes I know, I worked for IBM

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

Not only driver issues, UI issues. A workmate deleted an image that was being used as a background on the desktop on an office PC, oops presentation manager crashed and it wouldn't boot to a GUI. That was in Warp 3.