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by BobbyTables2 260 days ago
OS/2 Warp was amazing.

It ran Windows applications natively and crashed less than Win 3.1 — but still had some hardware compatibility issues.

It had a fancy scripting language and a lot of neat stuff already built in — unlike Windows at the time.

I really wanted to switch to it, but Win95 won…
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Lammy 259 days ago
> It had a fancy scripting language and a lot of neat stuff already built in

Rexx mentioned! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexx

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pjmlp 260 days ago
Used Smalltalk for the role .NET has nowadays on Windows, and SOM was so much better than COM.

However that price tag was horrendous as OS for home computers.

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