Incidentally, I had read good reviews of OS/2 Warp in a computer magazine, PC Quest. I think they included a trial or full copy of Warp with that issue on a CD. (They used to do that now and then, and I got to try out QNX for a while that way - very fast and light OS.) It was a while back, but I remember a few things, like they said it (Warp) was very stable, maybe fast, and probably a few more good points.
I remember terms like System Object Model and Workplace Shell, although I probably did not understand all of those concepts fully - a bit too junior at the time, maybe.
I’m obviously biased but I thought it was a decent O/S. App support was minimal but with the WinOS2 support you could run most Windows code. I thought the TCP/IP stack was years ahead of Windows, not quite comparable to what you'd find on SunOS/Solaris or whatever DEC ran on the microvax workstations.
IBM, being IBM, charged an arm and both legs for the development kit, even to internal employees.
I managed to use it until June 1998 when I found it was getting to be too much of a pain to dual boot to Windows to open Netscape (there was a Netscape browser for OS/2 but it was web years behind what they were distributing on Windows and *nix).
>I thought the TCP/IP stack was years ahead of Windows, not quite comparable to what you'd find on SunOS/Solaris or whatever DEC ran on the microvax workstations.
I remember back in the day, people saying that the TCP/IP and Internet layers on Windows were not good. There was this software called Trumpet Winsock, which may have tried to make things better.
Incidentally, I had read good reviews of OS/2 Warp in a computer magazine, PC Quest. I think they included a trial or full copy of Warp with that issue on a CD. (They used to do that now and then, and I got to try out QNX for a while that way - very fast and light OS.) It was a while back, but I remember a few things, like they said it (Warp) was very stable, maybe fast, and probably a few more good points.
I remember terms like System Object Model and Workplace Shell, although I probably did not understand all of those concepts fully - a bit too junior at the time, maybe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_Object_Model
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_Shell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2