The reason i asked, is because i downloaded a program called webwrite which looked like a graphical html editor that i hadn't heard of, and it turns out that it runs on os/2.
I just looked at the ibm site and they want US$284 for the newest os/2warp4!!!!!!!!
Well, i spotted a second hand copy of OS/2 in Sydney last year, for AUS$15 which i wish i had bought now!!
I just thought, what with all the 2nd hand bits floating around these days at dirt cheap prices, i could set up a machine built from old bits for next to nothing, solely for wordprocessing and internet use (because as we all know, the internet is as slow as a clapped out old amiga anyway) And i thought, that i could run win3.11 and old 8 bit programs on it, which might be free now due to being abandonware.
Plus, being a huge fan of master system/megadrive/nes et c, i have emulators which run games for those machines, in DOS, if OS/2 can handle that then fine (because God knows windows can't! sometimes i think they make DOS run so bad nowadays to try and kill it off).
Then i thought, aha! if ibm have brought out an OS that runs win3 applications, plus its own stuff (eg webwrite, my free but useless download) then that would be a lot better, i could even dual boot it with linux on a 486 or P1 maybe... I've never used OS/2 before, and i don't think i have used win3 either, being on macs only at that time...
Well, the buggers are shooting themselves in the head asking for US$284 for it. Is there a way around it? An older version available cheap somewhere? Is it legal to sell yr old copies of OS/2 on if you no longer have it installed yrself?
[ January 23, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]