On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 00:17:49 -0800 (PST), Rex Ballard <rex.ballard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Mainframe.
>OS/2 2.0 suffered a similar fate when it was released for General
>Availability in March of 1992. It was riddled with bugs inherited
>from Microsoft, and enabling certain features that improved
>performance had a horrible toll on reliability. In 1994, OS/2 2.0 was
>replaced with Warp 3.0, which had a "spare tire" mode, allowing users
You're forgetting OS/2 2.1 and OS/2 2.1 for windows.
The former was the first very useable 32 bit version and the second
was made affordable by not paying money to microsoft for the windows 3.1
licence.
Also: warp 3.0 didn't replace 2.1. It should have been called 2.2,
it was basically a bugfix release with some optimizations incorporated.
>to generate a recovery desktop. This allowed them to recover from a
>crash or disk failure very quickly. Still, it was a messy recovery.
>When Warp 4.0 came out, it was very solid, very reliable, and on the
Might as well have been called 2.2.1. 4.0 had very little to offer that
was new except for speech recognition that didn't work terribly well.
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