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How's your DOS ?
lordedmond:
Dave
Don't get mixed up OS2 may be a server version OS2 /Warp was the single user version for desk top computers
In the engineering dept for NWB comp centre we had a server with OS2 as the OS boy did it have some lag
The banks mainframes ran on some IBM software I believe it was cobol not certain with a time share system on one of the main frame but it could be 15 mins between key press and result when busy
It's been a trip down memory lane what with soldering up 4116 mem chip et al.
I think my first dos was 3.1
I could not afford the IBM PS2 micro Chanel offerings that the bank used just as a terminal emulator
But how things have changed now the hardware is of no interest but the software still is at this time I use swift with metal api,s
Hope we have not derailed to OP thread with our ramblings
How about the BBC Acton that used a mix of basic and pascal for its OS uggg
Stuart
awemawson:
Still got my slide rule - an Aristo Scholar that took me through college, but I do have an Abacus hanging on the wall of my office as the ultimate back up device :lol:
DavidA:
Stuart,
This is the stand-alone version.
I just pulled the box out to have a look.
World's most popular 32 - bit operating system.
OS/2 Warp Version 3.
System requirements .
Intel 386 SX compatible or higher personal computer.
4MB of RAM
35 - 55MB free HD space
1.44MB floppy
OS/2 compatible CD - ROM drive.
VGA support
IBM compatible mouse.
And it comes with the cd, two floppies to install the CD.
A manual for the system and one for the different keyboard configurations.
And a bonus pack with IBM Works, Online Access and other programs.
Thing is, you can also retain your DOS as well as utilise Windows 3.1
Pretty versatile.
Ah, the good old days.
Andrew, Lew,
I have a good slide rule, but no cursor. Must get around to fixing that.
But it is amazing the number of kids who have difficulty with straight forward arithmetic these days.
Long division is enough to send many to their therapists.
Dave
CrazyModder:
OS/2 Warp was nice indeed. When Windows 3.1 - 98 were still little more than DOS with a fancy GUI on top, OS/2 Warp did most things right under the hood. Too bad it had bad marketing and bad market share. I have a feeling if it had just a little bit more/better applications, it would have gone somewhere. But IBM management decided to give it a Windows 3.1 compatibility layer :palm: - bad for them that Microsoft decided to go their own ways and didn't give them the newer APIs. And when Windows NT4 and later XP got real operating systems with a kernel instead of DOS, it was the end of the story for OS/2.
philf:
I have an old Compaq SLT 286 luggable with DOS 6.22 on it but it hasn't been switched on for years. (And probably won't boot if I were to try it as the CMOS backup battery is built in to the Dallas Real Time Clock chip - there is a fix for it. ) Cost an absolute fortune when new - prices started at $5,399!
If any one wants to upgrade their old 486 DOS PC to a Pentium I have at least one and possibly two Pentium Overdrive units which will plug into a 486 processor socket and upgrade your machine to a 90Mhz Pentium.
Free to a good home. The luggable would have to be collected. I'd post out the Overdrive(s) in exchange for a donation to MadModder.
Phil.
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