OS/2

7 engineers on Hacker News describe using OS/2 first-hand: 1 endorse it, 0 regret it, 2 are mixed.

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7first-hand users
6in production
endorse 1mixed 2regret 0uses, no opinion

“I was there, supporting this stuff in production back then.”

mixed · production · lproven · 2024-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we moved to OS/2 which was wonderful to multitask DOS applications in.”

endorse · production · loloquwowndueo · 2020-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“OS/2's one real Achilles heel, which gave us endless trouble, was the synchronous input queue”

mixed · production · captaincrowbar · 2013-05-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I dual-booted into OS/2 2.0 because I was really into computers.”

neutral · personal · skissane · 2024-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The healthcare providers usually ran a mixture of WfW 3.11 and OS/2 on clients.”

neutral · production · tssva · 2021-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“started on os/2 and after about half a year we switched to nt4”

neutral · production · 0.5 yr · iforgotpassword · 2018-07-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We retired our last OS/2 & NT 3.51 server this year but still have a few NT4 machines.”

neutral · production · jsz0 · 2010-09-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?