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.
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.
Arca OS, the continuation of OS/2, is still around, and it supports relatively modern hardware. Looks like the last release was 2023.
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