Re: [SLE] Re:Upgrading MS Windows on a Dual Booting Machine
On Sunday 18 January 2004 16:44, James Knott wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 18 January 2004 14:49, James Knott wrote:
Well, actually IBM calls the ability to boot OS/2 or DOS from the same partition "Dual Boot".
I doubt that IBM would make such a silly mistake as suggesting you could boot OS/2 or DOS from the same partition.
Same disk, maybe, but not the same partition.
Same partition. You could install OS/2 over an existing DOS FAT partition and have both in the same partition. This is called "Dual Boot". The option, is to use "Boot Mangager" to have multiple operating systems on different partitions. The first time I installed OS/2, I tried the dual boot method.
I stand corrected. Even windows 95 didn't resort to this huge of a kludge. No wonder os2 is dead. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
John Andersen wrote:
No wonder os2 is dead.
The newest version of OS/2 is newer than Windoze XP. Read the headers of this message. -- "The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of governmental power." General Douglas MacArthur Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
Felix Miata wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
No wonder os2 is dead.
The newest version of OS/2 is newer than Windoze XP. Read the headers of this message.
Okay, let's not start an OS war shall we? This is a Linux list. -- Until later, Geoffrey esoteric@3times25.net Building secure systems inspite of Microsoft
How can OS2 be alive when IBM reportedly abandoned it years ago. is it open source?? CWSIV On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 18:44, Felix Miata wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
No wonder os2 is dead.
The newest version of OS/2 is newer than Windoze XP. Read the headers of this message. -- "The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of governmental power." General Douglas MacArthur
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
On Monday 19 January 2004 7:16 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
How can OS2 be alive when IBM reportedly abandoned it years ago. is it open source??
Seems to me there was a famous quote along the lines of "rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated" [or something like that] While on the surface it appears IBM wants to kill/has killed OS/2, the reality is that it is far too entrenched in "behind the scenes" places for that to happen. For instance, as was hinted at earlier in the thread, several ATM's use OS/2 -- not something you generally think about, but consider the migration effort that would have to ensue to switch everything over to "something else" at the drop of a hat. That's not to say "it won't happen..." because I've heard reports that it is happening (or has happened in some areas...) but with windows really being the OS de' Jour (i.e., the flavor seems to change daily) REPEATEDLY going through "transitions" is not something that banks and other financial institutions are going to stand for, so they don't. Fortunately, for ATM's [at least], they don't really need anything more complicated/involved than standard "DOS" -- there isn't much need to "multitask" with only one function to provide, now is there? (I initially was going to say "with one person at the keyboard", but outside of game consoles, when was the last time you saw two people working on the same "workstation"?) -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net
I'll add to that, in Australia at least you can still get regular updates for OS/2. I know that a number of International xxxxxxx Sites that run OS/2 Warp4 workstations and swear on OS/2 as the only way to go. M$ tried (with big bucks behind the project) with one last year and couldn't get more than about 23% of the throughput OS/2 had using the same structure. Lets remember that most of these systems are using IBM Mainframes to do the real work and cross-connectivity, so why shouldn't an operating system that's been written by the same company to have maximum compatability give maximum front end throughput. regards scsijon ps are we starting to get a little off-topic gals and guys, and it's time to move to suse-ot ? pps i believe IBM have been talking to mr T (our god of creation), i wonder what's coming next At 02:21 AM 20/01/2004, Tom Emerson wrote:
On Monday 19 January 2004 7:16 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
How can OS2 be alive when IBM reportedly abandoned it years ago. is it open source??
Seems to me there was a famous quote along the lines of "rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated" [or something like that] While on the surface it appears IBM wants to kill/has killed OS/2, the reality is that it is far too entrenched in "behind the scenes" places for that to happen. For instance, as was hinted at earlier in the thread, several ATM's use OS/2 -- not something you generally think about, but consider the migration effort that would have to ensue to switch everything over to "something else" at the drop of a hat.
That's not to say "it won't happen..." because I've heard reports that it is happening (or has happened in some areas...) but with windows really being the OS de' Jour (i.e., the flavor seems to change daily) REPEATEDLY going through "transitions" is not something that banks and other financial institutions are going to stand for, so they don't. Fortunately, for ATM's [at least], they don't really need anything more complicated/involved than standard "DOS" -- there isn't much need to "multitask" with only one function to provide, now is there? (I initially was going to say "with one person at the keyboard", but outside of game consoles, when was the last time you saw two people working on the same "workstation"?)
-- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net
They didn't abandon it. They simply stopped marketing it. They still sell to corporate customers. For example, since my company does a lot of work for banks, we have a couple of OS/2 systems for working with them. Anyone who wants a solid reliable system stays away from Windows. For that reason, many banks have been using OS/2 for many years and continue to do so. There is also an indepentdent company that remarkets OS/2 to small users. Their product is called eComm Station. Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
How can OS2 be alive when IBM reportedly abandoned it years ago. is it open source??
CWSIV
On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 18:44, Felix Miata wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
No wonder os2 is dead.
The newest version of OS/2 is newer than Windoze XP. Read the headers of this message. -- "The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of governmental power." General Douglas MacArthur
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
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