Advent of OS/2

I have a lot of respect for OS/2 and this wonderful article just confirms it --- the architecture and UI was so consistent that I was able to talk a customer through installing a printer over the phone, w/o access to a machine running it, even though my only experience with it was installing it as a custom configuration on their machine the day before.

Kind of wish it was possible to run it on modern hardware... well, the OS/2 for Pens version anyway.

I guess I'm "privileged" or whatever but things worked out in a way that before middle school I knew we could run either Linux or a BSD 4.2 derived OS that was genetically related to the SGI and Sun boxes one of my relatives had.

I always looked at anything in the DOS/Windows noosphere as belonging to a distant and failed civilization, or more simply put: DOS/Windows is for the slaves.