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Author Topic: Happy Borthday OS2 Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-03-2012 11:47 PM                     Happy bday OS2 you are 25 years old today  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 04-04-2012 05:51 AM                     I loved OS2, but the lack of available software forced me across to Windblows. Is OS2 still available?  |  IP: Logged David Buckley Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 525 From: Oxford, N. Canterbury, New Zealand Registered: Aug 2004 posted 04-04-2012 06:10 AM                        Yep, still available, eComStation  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-04-2012 11:00 AM                     http://techland.time.com/2012/04/02/25-years-of-ibms-os2-the-birth-death-and-afterlife-of-a-legendary-operating-system/ My fax server and voice mail is a old 586 running warp 4 and in the last 15 years i think it has been rebooted twice only because we were moving  |  IP: Logged Daniel Schulz Master Film Handler Posts: 387 From: Los Angeles, CA USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 04-04-2012 07:00 PM                        My first PC ran OS/2 2.1 I was at that age (18) when it's fun to be contrarian about everything, and couldn't bear the thought of Windows. Somehow the Mac world didn't register on my radar (I did have a friend who was an intense Amiga partisan though), so I made sure my first computer had 8 MB of RAM so I could run OS/2. It really was pretty great, but as noted above the lack of 3rd party developer support made it increasingly untenable as a platform for personal use.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 04-04-2012 10:37 PM                    I remember installing OS/2 back in the early to mid nineties and then not being able to figure out how to get it to do anything once it was up.  |  IP: Logged

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