Hi Paul,
> Wow.....
If its not broke, and does what is required, why change ?
That and the fact I've never had a worm/virus/breakin.
> What version? Warp 4? I'm suprised to see someone other than a bank
> machine still running OS/2, especially on the internet.
v4.52
Also the server info is <http://www.os2site.com/pages/techinfo.html>
> Was an interesting OS. IBM originally created it to compete with
> Microsoft, but Microsoft got involved with the development of it to, as
> Steve Ballmer put it, "Ride the Dragon's back". In other words, IBM was
> too important a partner to lose, so MS helped them write OS/2 so they
could
> keep them close and keep an eye on them. They also could make sure it
> wasn't that good.
That was until IBM took over completely after version 2.00.
Other problem was IBM was making all the money from servicing
Windows machines, thats were the money was, OS/2 did provide
after sales income, I know, I was one of those doing the call outs,
"oh, nothing wrong with the hardware, its a Windows problem,
would you like me to fix it while I'm here ? It's not covered
under the IBM warranty so you will be billed"
> In many ways, far superior to MS-DOS and Windows 95. But IBM was so
> focused on keeping it only on their hardware, while MS let anybody and
> everybody building an x86-based box run Windows.
Works fine on a lot of other hardware, it was really only upto
v2.11 that OS/2 was touchy about what it was running on.
I'm sure one day I'll have to migrate to a different OS, I also
still have an RS/6000 with AIX 5.2 on it. I'll probably end up
running Linux though.
Cheers
Ian Manners
Of nowhere in particular.
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