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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Unless you had a modem. First with online services and then with the Internet, OS/2 provided a vastly superior solution to DOS and Windows 3.x.
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I don't know if it was or wasn't better, but it's apparently irrelevant, because I know of NO ONE who used it (statistically speaking).
Any issues with DOS or Windows handling of modem activity was obviated by the special purpose monolithic apps of the day: Compuserve, The Source, AOL (built on GEOS, on top of DOS), GEnie, etc. all had applications that handled the connectivity just fine. Those apps are what folks used to get online, so nothing else about the OS mattered.
By the time people cared about getting direct IP connections to an ISP, Windows had improved, and OS/2 was a non-issue.