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voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by BoogerHead:
Granted it is OLD...but how often did you see OS/2 crash?  As compared to NT?  It was an incredible product for its day...too bad.
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Actually it crashed quite often.  I recall lots of "TRAP E" and "TRAP D" messages and memory leaks (mainly Software vendors fault on this one). It definately had the "smell" of Microsoft. Of course I had already been into *NIX when I started with OS/2 so OS/2 didn't have much of a chance. OS/2 feels like a Microsoft operating system, like in the Win 3.1 era (granted better than MS).  I got pretty in depth with OS/2 but never really liked it. Linux already had my heart.

[ January 23, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

Calum:
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 ]

voidmain:
I have a few boxed sets of both Red and Blue boxes of OS/2 Warp 3 but like Microsoft I don't think you are allowed to "re-sell" them.  I have to tell you, I really think it would be a waste of your time, and I doubt you would like it, and since it's all but dead ($284 should tell you they don't want to support it anymore).

Calum:
Why don't they just drop it then? they must think there's a share of the market for them if they're doing it at all. Maybe their price is based on M$ prices. They think they're in direct competition with XP!
I heard from numerous people that they had stopped supporting it, and it looks from their site, like they only started again a year or two ago, although i wouldn't really know. Why? if they don't want to do it. But then IBM are probably the  most confusingly motivated company in the IT/computer/Telecom industry after all.

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