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Old 06-10-2015, 01:53 PM   #768
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Originally Posted by ApK View Post
I don't know if it was or wasn't better, but it's apparently irreverent, 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.
As I recall IBM in their infinite wisdom subcontracted some OS/2 development out to a firm called Microsoft. At the very least it turned out to be a terrific learning experience for one of those firms.

As an aside as this and recent posts have little to do with Windows 9 (oops I mean 10) I think there are still OS/2 servers running today. Long live REXX...
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