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lumberg

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#91252 9-Oct-2011 21:10

Just looking through some old stuff and found the old OS/2 Warp OS Just wondering if there any die hard fans still left out there that got it running still ??

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#531270 9-Oct-2011 21:13

What was it? 24 floppy disks for the install? 28?

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#531279 9-Oct-2011 21:34

WOW! That takes me back. Bought an IBM once with it on and it corrupted badly one day one. Had to re-install it - man what an experience!!!

I was very quickly replaced with Windows - for better or worse.

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#531282 9-Oct-2011 21:47

a dead horse even before it started as if they beat down MS... they tried
to roll it into polys
it might of been better core design but it had many cons over windows

i have workstation 5 of it running in vmware just fine.. even works with internet

its freeware now can download it free i believe.. got some v3 on cds i think
we offered $40 for a student edition for the course..

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#531358 10-Oct-2011 08:22

lumberg: Just looking through some old stuff and found the old OS/2 Warp OS Just wondering if there any die hard fans still left out there that got it running still ??

It's still commercially available as "eComStation". I dropped it after Warp 4 when it IBM stopped backing it because Microsoft wouldn't allow a Win95 dual-boot OEM PC without charging IBM an extra $100+ per PC because there was a 2nd OS on there.

OS/2 had a two year lead on Windows as a 32-bit pre-emptively multi-tasking OS. Most people were still using Windows 3.1 at that stage (1992).

I shifted to Linux in '94-'95...and never looked back.

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#531364 10-Oct-2011 08:48

kiwigeek1: its freeware now can download it free i believe.. got some v3 on cds i think
we offered $40 for a student edition for the course..

OS/2 is not freeware and it's not free. Its code is proprietary and cannot be released because as "free" because it contains code sourced by IBM from third parties.

It's currently available as EComStation for commercial applications.

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#531408 10-Oct-2011 10:31

I was supporting OS/2 Warp up till 2008 at NZPA :) Their editorial system's user interface was based on the platform. Funnily enough the UI at my job a few years prior to that was OS/2 based as well. Strange how much I had exposure to it when other techie's I know have never even seen it :)

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#531409 10-Oct-2011 10:35

I remember buying a copy of OS/2 Warp when it was launched in the 90s to run on my old 386SX 25 Mhz box with 4MB RAM...

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#531468 10-Oct-2011 12:12

Yep my first self bought PC, IBM Aptiva 486 DX4-100 came with Windows 3.1.1 AND OS/2. I remember quad-booting Windows 95, Windows 3.1.1, DOS 6.2 and OS/2 on that machine LOL

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#531470 10-Oct-2011 12:16

The other day I fired up OS/2 under vmware for a laugh.

You can even run the latest Firefox under it, I was pretty impressed. Then I thought "What the hell am I doing with old crappy technology?" and deleted it.

I remember using it though back before Windows 95 came out. It was awesome in that it could run Win3.11 apps as well, but that was also it's problem. It supported and promoted its competitor!