You could write your own drivers! :)


>I got a copy of OS2 Warp at home somewhere. I wonder how that puppy would run on a state of the art PC today??? WWWAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPPPP SPEED!
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>Then again, it might just hang up..... would be fun to see!
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>Tommy
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>>Seems like it was sometime around 1996 when the last version of OS2 hit the market. Or was that the garbage can? There were two versions Red and Blue and it was being demonstrated by IBM at Fry’s in Campbell, California on a Saturday afternoon. I was very impressed!
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>>As the new week began IBM announced it had a new president. The new president made an announcement, “We will no longer support OS2”! Wow! Introduced and killed in the same week! Nice marketing plan – so I stayed away.
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>>>>>Now, OS2, that was an AWESOME product, but it was not a success. Too bad for all of us.
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>>>>Yes, that really is too bad. It was comprehensive and consistent in the way it treated "objects" and also was a TRUE pre-emptive multitasking system (not just a time-slicer like Windows is).
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>>>It was an Awesome OS. That baby didn't bat an eye when it came to multitasking (a friend of mine ran a BBS here in Greensboro with it, 24/7). Windows.... time-slicing with disk-thrashing.. a wonderful way to waste the day.... sigh.
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>>>And how much memory did it require? Wasn't it like 16 or 32 Megs to run it effectively? This was back in 1993??
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>>>But it was what the people wanted!!! sigh again........
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>>>And the idiots running IBM didn't know how to market. They had a killer app and let it fizzle on the vine while MS kicked them a new one.
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>>>Tommy