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1. awg (awg@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2017 05:16:31 UTC awg
   OS/2 warp had preemptive multitasking and a badass BSD-based networking stack before unix was "in".  writing PM programs was not the asinine exercise that making anything in win32 was(/is).  the registry made sense even to the uninitiated.  loading new device drivers was often a simple matter of adding another line to CONFIG.SYS.  IBM's DOS emulation was often a superior performer for playing games than straight DOS if you were so inclined.  the list goes on ... it was a helluva of an OS at the time.
   • Hallå Kitteh and Stephen Michael Kellat repeated this.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2017 05:22:18 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @awg Together with a Windows install it was even better at running Windows programs than Windows was. :-)