Comments on: Remembering an Old Acquaintance: The Obituary of a Dead Operating System http://dancalloway.com/wordpress/2010/01/remembering-an-old-acquaintance-the-obituary-of-a-dead-operating-system/ Dedicated to Saint Nestor the Chronicler (c. 1056 - 1114) Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:40:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave Keyes http://dancalloway.com/wordpress/2010/01/remembering-an-old-acquaintance-the-obituary-of-a-dead-operating-system/comment-page-1/#comment-1403 Dave Keyes Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:12:49 +0000 http://dancalloway.com/wordpress/?p=2326#comment-1403 Great article Dan. I use to write programs for OS/2 both GUI and console applications and utilities, and some low level libraries (dll's) used by other programmers. I always thought the multiprocessing capabilities worked better then Windows of today. At one time OS/2 and Windows code was the same, except Windows API's started with Win, with the OS/2 didn't. When WARP came out, it was a big step forward for OS/2. The early days of OS/2 Extended Edition was painful, the database (DB/2) use to crash quite regularly. But IBM finally got it right in OS/2 3.x and later. I even purchased full licenses to run here at the house. The IBM VisualAge C/C++ compiler allow us to write one set of code with minor differences where we could typedef around it, and compile it for OS/2 or for Windows. I still am using some of my utilities in Windows today from back then. Like your brother, I started with the Commordore VIC 20, then the SX-64 (their portable computer), the C-128. Along with some CP/M computers at work. Great article Dan. I use to write programs for OS/2 both GUI and console applications and utilities, and some low level libraries (dll’s) used by other programmers. I always thought the multiprocessing capabilities worked better then Windows of today. At one time OS/2 and Windows code was the same, except Windows API’s started with Win, with the OS/2 didn’t. When WARP came out, it was a big step forward for OS/2. The early days of OS/2 Extended Edition was painful, the database (DB/2) use to crash quite regularly. But IBM finally got it right in OS/2 3.x and later.

I even purchased full licenses to run here at the house. The IBM VisualAge C/C++ compiler allow us to write one set of code with minor differences where we could typedef around it, and compile it for OS/2 or for Windows. I still am using some of my utilities in Windows today from back then.

Like your brother, I started with the Commordore VIC 20, then the SX-64 (their portable computer), the C-128. Along with some CP/M computers at work.

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