Microsoft’s claim of a “Faster app emulation than Rosetta 2” is the new OS/2: “A better DOS than DOS and a better Windows than Windows"
OS/2 failed for a lot of reasons. A not insignificant one was that your Win16 apps would run great, better even, on OS/2. On Windows if a Win16 app died it’d take down the machine. On OS/2 it’d just get killed and you could go on with life.
Being great at backwards compatibility when you want people to move forward is a very sharp double edged sword.
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2024-04-10 02:30:41
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