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To: nihil who wrote (91942)	11/9/1999 8:38:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: bought a 486 Thinkpad with OS2.. We'd developed some models that ran on OS/2 (the initial 1.0, then 1.1 - without a graphical interface). We needed the flat memory space. It was rock solid stable and the performance was competitive with our SUNs of the time (this was in the pre SPARC days). When we tried to later order machines with OS/2 preinstalled, we couldn't even get them from IBM! We also had trouble getting upgrades to the Fortran compiler we were using. There were reports at the time that Microsoft's licensing prohibited a holder of Windows OEM license from selling an X86 machine w/o windows. At this point, who knows? But we ported the models to windows (or went back to the SUNs), and dropped OS/2. By the way, in my own purely subjective experience, Win NT, as of SP5, has equaled or bettered the stability of OS/2 1.1. Congratulations, Microsoft! Sooner would have been better, but SP5 NT is quite good. Regards, Dan