RE: [SLE] [SOLVED] No operating system found?(os/2 ot)
Hello, everyone. How spooky. I just this week found an old case of CDs, and in amongst it all was my old OS/2 Warp 3 CD, AND the Bonus Pack CD. I bought this at a show in London in February 1997 from the IBM stand, after sitting through the huge Win95 demo. At that time, Win95 was the BEST advert for OS/2 that I'd seen. It used to amuse me to run a test Novell server from a DOS session in OS/2, and then connect to it from the Novell Client for OS/2, such that I had a full blown client/server implementation for testing with all on the same machine. And this was on a 486DX/2-50. I forget how much RAM it had. I think I had maxed out the board at 64MB RAM. Bye for now, Stuart. -----Original Message----- From: James Knott [mailto:james.knott@rogers.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 9:34 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] [SOLVED] No operating system found?(os/2 ot) Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
I have to say this is more than a little ironic. For years I never met another person who ran OS/2 (although I did once get a list of local users from an OS/2 group. Team OS/2 maybe? There were like 5 members in the entire region). Now here I am years later on a SuSE list and they're coming out of the woodwork. :-) Go figure. Are all (all, hehe) OS/2 users migrating to SuSE?
I suspect many people are running Linux for the same reason they used to run OS/2. They want a reliable and flexible OS, which rules out Windows. Now, if only IBM would port the WPS (Work Place Shell desktop) to Linux. There's no other desktop I've seen that comes anywhere near to what the WPS can do.
It used to amuse me to run a test Novell server from a DOS session in OS/2, and then connect to it from the Novell Client for OS/2, such that I had a full blown client/server implementation for testing with all on the same machine. And this was on a 486DX/2-50. I forget how much RAM it had. I think I had maxed out the board at 64MB RAM.
I'll take it back a little further yet :) A good friend of mine and myself used to run a BBS system (the ollld dial-up-with-modem type). It started off on a single DOS-based PC. We quickly maxed out the two IDE drive slots. Eventually he expanded it with Lantastic, networked it to two other DOS machines, a Win31 machine, and shortly after, OS/2 Warp became the BBS 'server,' running Lantastic for OS2. That was the most awe-inspiring thing back then, having one program running in DOS-mode, and still be able to alt-tab away (and the process didn't suspend, like Win31 did!) and play a game, or do anything else you wanted.
Powell, Stuart wrote:
Hello, everyone.
How spooky. I just this week found an old case of CDs, and in amongst it all was my old OS/2 Warp 3 CD, AND the Bonus Pack CD. I bought this at a show in London in February 1997 from the IBM stand, after sitting through the huge Win95 demo. At that time, Win95 was the BEST advert for OS/2 that I'd seen.
It used to amuse me to run a test Novell server from a DOS session in OS/2, and then connect to it from the Novell Client for OS/2, such that I had a full blown client/server implementation for testing with all on the same machine. And this was on a 486DX/2-50. I forget how much RAM it had. I think I had maxed out the board at 64MB RAM.
Any reason why you didn't run it directly on OS/2? Netware (at least 4.1X) would run on OS/2, without using a DOS session.
People, please just stop this thread. 2 days! ago I marked this one, as [SOLVED]. Since all the emails are OT and should have been moved to the suse off topic list or at least the subject should have been altered. The solution is to remove the floppy from the FD, that's all. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
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