Apr 3, 2007 at 9:46 AM
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OS/2, the operating system that did battle with Windows for desktop supremacy turns 20 years old this week.
OS/2 was a land of many innovations. It is also the environment in which Stardock was born into. It is where Object Desktop came from originally with features such as the ability to change all the icons by applying a "package" of icons. It included the ability to change the look and feel of the OS/2 GUI (title bars, buttons, scrollbars, etc. sound familiar?).
OS/2 was incredibly advanced in its day. In 1992, when I started to really get into OS/2, it was a 32-bit, multitasking, multi-threaded operating system with an object oriented environment. By contrast, Windows 3.0 barely could run, was ugly, had a terrible shell (Program Manager), didn't really multitask.
Only through IBM's incredible incompotence and Microsoft's hardball marketing strategy did OS/2 end up blowing its incredible lead.
For those of you who were OS/2 users who are reading this, I toast you as fellow OS warriors in the right. We may have lost, but the battle goes on. *images.stardock.com/wc/smiles/Wink.gif
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