On 09/01/2019 09:23, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote: > Even mouse worked far better than the serial mice connected (in > absence of a better choice) to modem port in other PC machines, The first PC mice used ISA cards and used a similar protocol to the Amiga & ST mice, the Amstrad PC1512/PC1640 had a similar port on the keyboard. I personally would have preferred a mouse port like that. > not to mention that they attempted to deliver a relatively reasonable, > multitasking OS along with it. It was too ambitious and reliant on their biggest competitor who were prepared to cut corners in their own product. > Surely this was too good to succeed on the market or they went too far > the opposite direction of the original PC policies... The cost & system requirements were too high, the compatibility was too low. I quite liked OS/2 Warp 3 and ran it for about a month and then a couple of things happened. We got hold of Windows 95 & our novell netware server died. For a short period of time we were running a backup of our old novell M: drive from a samba share on a windows 95 box. I have a vague feeling OS/2 wouldn't access the share and so it got replaced, but it's days were numbered because it only had Windows 3.x compatibility and even that was pretty slow.Received on 2019-01-09 15:02:38
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