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Title: Bring Out Yer Dead!
Post by: SnotBag on April 25, 2005, 01:56:34 PM
Many moons ago Shockeye made some calculations and came up with a startling fact. Over a specific period of time he had spent more time attempting to get a solid installation of the OS/2 operating system than he had spent on the toilet.

http://www.theinquirer.org/?article=22793

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Campaign to make OS/2 open source begins
By Paul Hales: Monday 25 April 2005, 18:32

A CAMPAIGN has kicked off get get the source code for some old operating system, named OS/2, levered open.
Spods at OS2 World, the "Internet's premier community resource for OS/2" have launched the petition, worried to the high teeth that tales forecasting the demise of the dazzling OS may turn out to be true.

 Writes Neep, Kim Haverblad: "It is known that OS/2 isn't well supported by companies that make software or by individual developers, and OS/2 faces a high possibility of being replaced from the market."

The altruists ask IBM, "to release as much of the source that can be possible and list the OS/2 components that need an Open Source replacement. With a list of components that need to be replaced companies interested on OS/2 or individual developers can create Open Source software to fill this "holes" in the OS."

OS/2 was supposed to be the next big operating system afer DOS. But as IBM served up the offering, a bloke named Bill who'd aleady suckered the business machines company by slapping his company name on a version of DOS, out marketed the lumbering giant with a product called Panes, or Doors, or summat.

Sign the online petition --- http://www.os2world.com/petition/

SnotBag
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Title: Re: Bring Out Yer Dead!
Post by: HaemishM on April 26, 2005, 12:05:40 PM
Quote from: Someone Not Very Smart
OS/2 faces a high possibility of being replaced from the market."

Welcome to 1995.


Title: Re: Bring Out Yer Dead!
Post by: Pococurante on April 28, 2005, 10:39:23 AM
Hmm... well as someone who alpha-tested what later became OS/2 1.0 and was active in it all the way though Warp I have two comments:

1) Awesome - in 1994 OS/2 was still more stable and performant than 2000 server was into this decade.  Only Win2k3 dusts it.  With 64-bit support and all the admin tools Win2k3 has now OS/2 could easily be both a Microsoft and Linux killer.  I remember the first time I fired up 512 DOS windows all running Silent Service - ran overnight without a hitch, and even after I closed out all the instances is was another two months before I had to reboot the box.

2) What the heck causes anyone to have problems installing it - I haven't tried in a decade so I guess it is the driver support these days that is the problem.  I regularly loaded out tens of servers every hour and never had an issue.

A third comment: IBM was a complete fucking moron for letting Gates set them up and knock them down on operating systems twice in the same decade.  And even more fuckwitted for abandoning AIX instead of modernizing it and revising the licensing to something that could compete in the marketplace.  I was interning there in the late 80s and the mainframe/accountant mentalities were just staggeringly Teh Stupid.


Title: Re: Bring Out Yer Dead!
Post by: UD_Delt on May 03, 2005, 09:44:10 AM
Until about 2 years ago I had both an OS/2 and a Windows machine. All of our bank branches had mostly OS/2 machines so when doing development of anything that might be used in a branch we would have to test on the OS/2 machine as well. I hated that thing....