On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 at 08:37, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote: > > I remember OS/2 2.x and Warp could run emulated DOS and could also boot and > run a specific DOS, but with limitations. > > I ran OS/2 from 1.3 to Warp 4 Fixpack 12 until it crashed and destroyed most > hard drive data sometime during the single-digit days of April 2001.
You lasted longer than me, then. I was a big fan of OS/2 2.0 and ran it on 3 or 4 PCs. It was so far ahead of any other PC OS back then, it was amazing. But 2.1 broke a bunch of my device drivers, so I lost my mouse, my (external parallel-port) sound card, and SVGA mode on my 14" CRT. I tried what was then still codenamed Windows Chicago Beta (it was before the 95 name had been chosen) and it ran flawlessly, picking up all my hardware, allowed networking with my flatmate's PC, and had a better UI. So I switched. At work, I ran NT 3.51. > I even remember my room temperature at that time was 83 F, which was, and > still is, quite comfortable to me. I am "only" 54 so I don't speak Fahrenheit; it was no longer taught in UK schools by 1971 or so when I started primary school. Google tells me that's 28º C. Unpleasantly warm but tolerable. Above about 35º I find it hard to focus at all and I don't think I could work in a room at 30º. > After that, I was never again able to boot OS/2 even from the installation or > other floppies (Trap 000c or 000e). You mean, on the same PC? Sounds like something sustained thermal damage. Early 1990s PCs had poor cooling, because they didn't need much. > I then ran DR-DOS 7.03 much of the time before migrating to Linux Slackware. I think my home computers went: [Various 8-bits ->] Acorn RISC OS -> OS/2 2 -> Windows 95 -> NT 4 -> Caldera OpenLinux -> SUSE Professional -> Ubuntu. I tried lots of other Linuxes and also ran Mac OS X 10.0 through to 10.6, before a long gap of several versions until I could afford an Intel Mac. > Now I see no advantage in OS/2's successors (eComStation, ArcaOS) compared to > choosing between FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux and Haiku which have the advantage of > being open-source. Honestly, I have to agree. I want to try ArcaOS. I did get review copies of eComStation. It runs fine in VMs, but on bare hardware, it's unable to install (or even boot) on most machines I've tried, and on the ones it can, it's got as far as corrupting my partitioning (in one instance destroying 3 or 4 other OSes) and then failing to install. It's a pleasant enough desktop OS, but like MorphOS, to me it feels clunky and old-fashioned in the 21st century, and the lack of modern apps is very limiting. If it were cheap, I would use it for nostalgia, but it's not -- it's priced like the 1990s as well. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
