[Am-info] Living without Windows

[John J. Urbaniak]

John Poltorak wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:06:35PM -0500, Paul Rickard wrote:
> > ========== On 2001.10.29 11:55 AM, John Poltorak typed: ============
> >
> > >
> > >Someone pointed out this page:-
> > >
> > >http://www.msboycott.com/thealt/alts/windows.shtml
> > >
> > >as a list of Windows alternatives.
> > >
> > >I feel quite miffed that my favourite OS - OS/2 or its new incarnation eCS
> > >do not get a mention. OS/2 still has quite a following in the Anti-MS camp
> > >and is probably one of the easiest OS's for a Windows user to pick up due
> > >to the common ancestry, at least of the GUI, and I'd expect XP was
> > >initially developed as OS/2 v3 many years ago.
> >
> >     OS/2 isn't very suitable as a replacement for XP Home.
>
> How do you reach this conclusion?
>
> I'm sure that Serenity Systems, the developers of eCS, a new OS/2 release
> packaged with Lotus SmartSuite and Sun Star Office among many other things
> would disagree with you. They would say it was an ideal replacement.

That's quite correct.  eCS is an excellent home platform.  And eCS comes with a
few games too.

John