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[–] 1 point 7 months ago

Microslop: *messily committing public suicide*
Literally every other OS: "MY DAY HAS COME!"

And I'm not even saying that as a criticism; there has literally never been a better time to make a move in DECADES.

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  • 80's? I thought it came out around the same time as windowed 95. Or am I thinking of OS/2 Warp?

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  • Now if only the company was willing to make the licensing terms a little friendlier for individual use, or even create an open-core version. We have 9Front and Haiku (and ReactOS), why can't we have a FOSS OS/2?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago
    [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    loooong time since i used OS2, thought it would go somewhere, but then I thought the Amiga would and I liked BeOS

    wtf would I know :)

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    I liked BeOS

    I never had the chance to use it but those tabbed title bars were slick.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    it was very, very nice and really fast, especially if you actually were running it on a BeBox. sadly, there was barely any software beyond some really nice audio production software.

    Apple got very very close to licensing it for OS X to replace their aging Macintosh System Software, but they went with NeXTSTEP instead.

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    [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Too bad their business model is totally whack for personal use.

    One time purchase of $139 for 6 months of “support and maintenance” and then $49 a year for driver updates and such.

    It’s like they don’t want individuals using it. I’d imagine anyone who would be willing to pay that would be a commercial user with some old software that ArcaOS technically supports. Then it might be worth the price to be able to run said software with newer hardware.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    They probably don't want personal users. I remember seeing, not long ago, an OS/2 error screen in an older, but not ancient, ATM. I imagine there are other industrial/commercial machines still running it, and the technical support must be rather straightforward.

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    [–] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    loooong time since i used OS2, thought it would go somewhere, but then I thought the Amiga would and I liked BeOS

    wtf would I know :)

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago*

    Microslop: *messily committing public suicide*
    Literally every other OS: "MY DAY HAS COME!"

    And I'm not even saying that as a criticism; there has literally never been a better time to make a move in DECADES.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    80's? I thought it came out around the same time as windowed 95. Or am I thinking of OS/2 Warp?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Now if only the company was willing to make the licensing terms a little friendlier for individual use, or even create an open-core version. We have 9Front and Haiku (and ReactOS), why can't we have a FOSS OS/2?

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