Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: New to Linux

I was very much in love with OS/2 when it came out. An little known fact: Do
you know that almost all of Windows
API's can be trace back to IBM. If it had not been for the help of IBM,
Microsoft would not be where they are today.
You are right about the dos emulation, it is secound to non. I was
disappointed about the HPFS option too.

david

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Martin Warren <elephant_range@yahoo.com>wrote:

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> I took the opportunity not long ago to try out the eComstation demo
> offering of an UPDATED OS/2 (see the link that Robert gave), and was mostly
> pleased with the results on my Aspire 3089 laptop. It is indeed a modern
> operating system (again).
> Although I found the default desktop settings kind-of plain, it is the same
> solid OS that it always was, and the full commercial distro can be tweaked
> to your liking. The only thing that I didn't like was that HPFS is no
> longer a disk formatting option in the eComstation version.
> I also have an ancient AMD K6 machine with the original IBM OS/2 Warp 4 -
> fixpacks and all - on the first partition, DSL V3.3 on the second, and
> #!Crunchbang on the third of a 66G hard drive. I had to chainload grub to
> get OS/2 working with it. That much was a bit of a pain, but, it makes for
> an amusing machine. And, OS/2's native DOS emulation is second-to-none.
> IBM still is nice enough to provide continued limited support for its own
> product, so kudos to them.
>
> On Tue, 7/26/11, Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> From: Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: New to Linux
>
> To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 1:41 PM
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> On 7/26/2011 11:55 AM, c beck wrote:
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> > So you two really think the OP should be putting OS/2 on his modern think
>
> > pad? Seems a bit of an odd suggestion for someone wanting to experience
>
> > linux for the first time, eh?
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> >
>
> > cheers,
>
> > Chris
>
> Speaking only for myself, no. I stopped running OS/2 many years ago.
>
> However, in the course of the conversation I did check out:
>
> http://www.ecomstation.com/
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>
> http://www.ecomstation.biz/cgi-bin/db2www/biz_art2.d2w/report?catname=eComStation
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> ...which is the current state of the former OS/2, which does appear to
>
> be an up-to-date operating system, which may have some merit in today's
>
> computing environment.
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> http://www.robertwittig.com/
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> http://robertwittig.net/
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> http://robertwittig.org/
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