Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: smf <smf_at_null.net>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 13:27:01 +0000
Message-ID: <69c8d09e-2779-26e0-d4c1-2d1296b2ea70@null.net>
On 09/01/2019 09:23, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote:
> Even mouse worked far better than the serial mice connected (in 
> absence of a better choice) to modem port in other PC machines,

The first PC mice used ISA cards and used a similar protocol to the 
Amiga & ST mice, the Amstrad PC1512/PC1640 had a similar port on the 
keyboard. I personally would have preferred a mouse port like that.

> not to mention that they attempted to deliver a relatively reasonable, 
> multitasking OS along with it.

It was too ambitious and reliant on their biggest competitor who were 
prepared to cut corners in their own product.

> Surely this was too good to succeed on the market or they went too far 
> the opposite direction of the original PC policies... 

The cost & system requirements were too high, the compatibility was too low.

I quite liked OS/2 Warp 3 and ran it for about a month and then a couple 
of things happened. We got hold of Windows 95 & our novell netware 
server died.

For a short period of time we were running a backup of our old novell M: 
drive from a samba share on a windows 95 box.

I have a vague feeling OS/2 wouldn't access the share and so it got 
replaced, but it's days were numbered because it only had Windows 3.x 
compatibility and even that was pretty slow.
Received on 2019-01-09 15:02:38

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