18 Jul
2020
18 Jul
'20
4:30 p.m.
Thierry de Coulon composed on 2020-07-18 18:21 (UTC+0200):
E. Liddell wrote:
The punchline there is that OS/2 was written by Microsoft (under contract from IBM).
But Warp and the Workplace shell were not from Microsoft. KDE 1-2-3 looked to me like they had taken many ideas from OS/2 (and so did I find many features of kicker that reminded of the Warp (ex-smart) center.
WPS did have some features (like the "shadows") that no one has recreated anywhere.
I did try eComStation but it did not evolve with time.
That's a matter of opinion: https://www.arcanoae.com/
eCS I still have running 24/7 for my DOS apps. Unless something has changed that I don't know about, DOS on Linux is incompetent for my needs.
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Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!
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