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| Brandon | OS/2I was talking to an older man at a school function, and told him I was using Linux, be told me I should try OS/2 because it was majorly stable. I think it makes sense, I mean an OS made for old hardware should be resource light, and if I run it on my IBM with a P200MMX with 64MB of ram, it should fly, and I have OS/2 drivers for the IBM. Of course it would be nice if I could get it to run on something a little more powerful, like a Pentium 2 or 3, or most ideal, my thin client.
Does anyone know where I can get a copy? Or will I have to buy it on ebay? | 2009-03-20 | 3:47 PM |
| ksr | Re:OS/2Is it worth it? I mean, will you be able to get ethernet drivers and such? | 2009-03-20 | 3:49 PM |
| Brandon | Re:OS/2I have an IBM PC 350. Its a damn IBM the lord of all computers (well maybe not but they made OS/2).
I just looked and I have the video drivers to my IBM, and I have a bunch of old network drivers (my dad was a network admin in the mid-90s so I have all his old floppies).
I mean, I'm sure that my thin client and newer machines will be a struggle, and probably won't work, but I just want to try it, even if its just on my IBM. | 2009-03-20 | 4:01 PM |
| Todd | Re:OS/2I would recommend VetusWare since they have TONS of abandonware, but currently at the moment they're account is suspended. :(
You could find almost any old-school program on there. | 2009-03-20 | 9:27 PM |
| pharoah | Re:OS/2Here is a torrent of OS/2 warp (the internet enabled version)
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3497344/OS_2_Warp_4_(english_version) | 2009-03-20 | 10:23 PM |
| Brandon | Re:OS/2I'm trying the torrent from Pharoah, and if I like it and use it, I will buy a retail copy, but I don't see my dad letting me spend like $30 for some CDs for an OS that's latest release was in the 90s.
Vetusware is nice, but I really never need any abandonware, most of the time there is modern freeware that will do the same thing. | 2009-03-21 | 8:13 AM |
| Todd | Re:OS/2I'd be surprised if they sell it anymore. I was going to recommend using a torrent or some P2P to download it but they can be slow most of the time. :( | 2009-03-21 | 10:54 AM |
| Brandon | Re:OS/2I got it, and you can get Warp 4 on ebay, or a modern version called eComStation but its really expensive. | 2009-03-21 | 11:35 AM |
| Re:OS/2Hi
You may struggle to install ye ancient and venerable OS/2 Warp4 to recent/current hardware using 64bit CPUs but it is possible; you would have to Google for the tricks and traps involved though.
Should install without any great fuss on a P200 though - may need updated IDE drivers though depending on the size of hard disk. I seem to recall a problem with > 8Gb disks not being recognised by the Warp4 installer and needing to have the updated IDE drivers on a handy floppy disk - remember those? :-)
Generally, hardware pre-64bit CPUs should not be too great a problem - except, of course, for the fact that you may need to hunt for some suitable drivers for some hardware involved.
eComStation does install to a lot of recent/current hardware without much in the way of problems - yet again you may need to find the odd driver for hardware.
Have fun :-) | 2009-03-21 | 12:23 PM |
| Brandon | Re:OS/2I've hit a snag, I keep writing floppy images, and they keep failing, damn the floppy!!! | 2009-03-21 | 12:34 PM |
| Todd | Re:OS/2Buy new floppies! | 2009-03-21 | 1:10 PM |
| Brandon | Re:OS/2LOL LOL LOL I would get laughed at. | 2009-03-21 | 1:17 PM |
| Todd | Re:OS/2Fail. | 2009-03-21 | 9:19 PM |
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