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I miss OS/2

April 8, 2011 12:26:45 PM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums

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Reply #1 April 8, 2011 12:30:07 PM
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No you don't.  C'mon... think about it.  You don't really want to go back there...

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Reply #2 April 8, 2011 12:38:12 PM
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I don't believe I ever saw it let alone used it. 

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Reply #3 April 8, 2011 1:10:06 PM
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Sort of like the hair on my head. It was fun while it was around, but it's never coming back ...

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Reply #4 April 8, 2011 1:16:37 PM
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Someone's going to make Brad feel old by saying something like "What's OS/2?"

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Reply #5 April 8, 2011 1:17:13 PM
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Being about the same age as it, and only dreaming of having a computer for most of that time, I didn't get a chance to see the OS/2 in action. But what I do miss about it are the jokes, which are just about the only relation I have with it. Jokes like:

OS/2 VirusScan -- "Windows found: Remove it? [Y,Y]"

Windows vs OS/2 = Michael Jackson vs Mike Tyson

OS/2... Opens up Windows, shuts up Gates

Microsoft gives you Windows... OS/2 gives you the whole house

Is OS/2 half an operating system?

And many more. Now, all I've got are Mac jokes.

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Reply #6 April 8, 2011 1:37:04 PM
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I completely agree Draginol.  In the era of Win 3.1 and 95 I primarily used OS/2 2.x and Warp 3.  Win31 and 95 were just plain garbage compared to them.  The first time I got on the internet was using Warp 3. 

 

To this day I still find myself wishing I had the object oriented desktop and REXX.  NT has passed up OS/2 in functionality in many ways, but it still isn't quite where OS/2 was for my productivity.

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Reply #7 April 8, 2011 1:40:19 PM
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Quoting Ynglaur,
reply 4
"What's OS/2?"

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Reply #8 April 8, 2011 1:40:35 PM
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Really...........

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Reply #9 April 8, 2011 2:09:22 PM
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Well if OS/2 is that old, Brad probably had to get permission from his parents to stay up late and watch the Tonight when it was out. 

By the way what is OS/2?

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Reply #10 April 8, 2011 5:32:28 PM
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I miss windows.

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Reply #11 April 8, 2011 7:06:38 PM
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Quoting Philly0381,
reply 9
By the way what is OS/2?


An attempt to produce an operating system in competition to Windows.

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Reply #12 April 8, 2011 7:13:55 PM
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If you *REALLY* missed it then you would go build one like it.

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Reply #13 April 8, 2011 7:59:32 PM
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Well, feel free to get reacquainted...eComStation

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Reply #14 April 8, 2011 8:12:31 PM
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Talking about getting re-aquainted. They're bringing back, of all things, Commodore 64 in three or four flavors. Hefty price tag on the really good one too. $700 US. Read the article day before yesterday at Tech something. I don't recall the exact website. Okay ... I found it.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/the-new-commodore-64-updated-with-its-old-exterior/

 

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Reply #15 April 8, 2011 8:14:21 PM
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Quoting Uvah,
reply 14
Talking about getting re-aquainted. They're bringing back, of all things, Commodore 64 in three or four flavors. Hefty price tag on the really good one too. $700 US. Read the article day before yesterday at Tech something. I don't recall the exact website. Okay ... I found it.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/the-new-commodore-64-updated-with-its-old-exterior/

 

 

That's just a PC with an expensive case mod.

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Reply #16 April 8, 2011 8:55:50 PM
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Nostalgia ain't what it used to be...

Though I do have a complete OS2 Warp4 package somewhere...complete with a squillion installation floppies.

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Reply #17 April 8, 2011 11:11:29 PM
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I've never seen or used OS/2 and I'm 29

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Reply #18 April 8, 2011 11:26:02 PM
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I'm 31 and I have. It was a bit of a flop and not widely distributed. Which may explain why so many people have not heard of it.

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Reply #19 April 8, 2011 11:34:18 PM
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OS/2 was an operating system that seemed to go unnoticed. I remember using it back in the day. Hell, the big chain grocery store where I live was using it to run their registers until about a year ago.

 

It was a much superior OS to anything out at the time. I remember running a two line BBS with it a long, long time ago.

 

 

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Reply #20 April 9, 2011 12:15:33 AM
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You know, I would *really* like to see Brad actually *discuss* something on this forums. The trend I've noticed lately is that he makes a single post about 'whatever', everybody jumps in with different opinions, and not a peep from him is heard again until the next totally unrelated post.

Sorry Brad, but that's not the Brad I know for 10 years.  Will you please come back down to earth? Seriously, we need you here.

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Reply #21 April 9, 2011 12:36:17 AM
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@unacomn

 

Dogs crawl under fences, computers crawl under Windows!

 

OS/2 user since IBM version 1.2 Extended Edition!

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Reply #22 April 9, 2011 1:20:51 AM
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Awesome Bunnahabhain!  I didn't even know it existed till version 2.0, and didn't run it myself till 2.1.

 

edit: Oh, and Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7 all have their roots in OS/2

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Reply #23 April 9, 2011 2:17:56 AM
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Quoting JcRabbit,
reply 20
You know, I would *really* like to see Brad actually *discuss* something on this forums. The trend I've noticed lately is that he makes a single post about 'whatever', everybody jumps in with different opinions, and not a peep from him is heard again until the next totally unrelated post.


I'll second that!

As for OS/2, you probably miss navel lint, too.

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Reply #24 April 9, 2011 6:48:48 AM
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I never have any experience with OS/2 (besides translating documentation to the Warp server some 15 years ago), but I am happy with Linux distros and FreeBSD today.

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Reply #25 April 9, 2011 10:16:27 AM
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Quoting Jafo,
reply 16
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be...

Though I do have a complete OS2 Warp4 package somewhere...complete with a squillion installation floppies.

...

What is a floppies ?

...

both my laptop and desktop have no floppies drive... something who is not anymore used...

 

About OS2, it is not yet fully dead... some fan guys are working on a open-source version ( http://www.osfree.org/wiki/doku.php )... and it is some features of OS2 ( like JFS : journaling file system ) who have be used for create Linux...

 

And.. OS2 is not dead at all, it is now called eComStation ( http://www.ecomstation.com/product_info.phtml )... can run OS2, windows 32 bits, windows 16 bit, DOS, X11, Java application on it... last version is from may 2010 ( http://www.osnews.com/story/23337/eComStation_2_0_Released )... ( http://en.ecomstation.ru/myths/ ) ... 2010 is one year ago, it is less old that sins of solar empire

 

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