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Old 06-10-2015, 05:21 AM   #760
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The Windows vs. OS/2 "wars" were even worse!
I've had OS/2... I bought a new PC, and it has OS/2 running on it. I didn't know it but was willing to give it a try. Within 2 hours I had Windows running on it...

I started the machine, OS/2 started, it looked good. I started an application (don't ask me what, this was in the first half of the '90s), it didn't do anything. So, I started another application. Again, nothing. After a minute of 10, I gave up. And tried to close it down. Then suddenly, after 15 minutes or so, the application I had started first finally actually started.

The hardware on that PC simply wasn't capable of running OS/2 with a decent speed, it turned out. It took almost 10 to 15 minutes to start an application!
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