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OS/2
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/O S too/ , n. The anointed successor to MS-DOS for Intel 286- and 386-based
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micros; proof that IBM/Microsoft couldn't get it right the second time,
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either. Often called Half-an-OS. Mentioning it is usually good for a cheap
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laugh among hackers the design was so baroque , and the implementation of
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1.x so bad, that three years after introduction you could still count the
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major app s shipping for it on the fingers of two hands in unary. The 2.x
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versions were said to have improved somewhat, and informed hackers rated
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them superior to Microsoft Windows (an endorsement which, however, could
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easily be construed as damning with faint praise). In the mid-1990s IBM put
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OS/2 on life support, refraining from killing it outright purely for
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internal political reasons; by 1999 the success of Linux had effectively
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ended any possibility of a renaissance. See monstrosity , cretinous ,
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second-system effect.
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