Subj : os/2 in the 2020's...
To : STAN HOSDAR
From : Daniel Juarez
Date : Wed Jun 02 2021 11:51 am
-=> Quoting Stan Hosdar to All <=-
SH> I work for a large automotive company.. who buys lots of old
SH> machines....
SH> one comes in, from Switzerland, with an OS/2 warp based HMI
SH> so, for the first time since I began using PC's in the early 90's I
SH> have to learn OS/2 to maintain this beast....
SH> it' oS/2 warp 4.0... kind of neat, running custom software in the os/2
SH> GUI type mode, with some kind of CAM type interface...
SH> and i'll be maintaining it till the machine dies or is replaced, and
SH> they even talkked about getting a second machine... it'll be in serice
SH> probably until 2030!
SH> crazy eh
Sweet. If it ain't broke . . . :-)
I was one of those people in the 90's that *wanted* to use OS/2 but
could not afford the hardware to run it properly. So, instead I bought
and installed Windows 3.1.
Today I have OS/2 Warp 4 running in VirtualBox on my Linux desktop. I
also use Windows 10 for work only, which also runs in a virtual machine.
On OS/2 one thing I have yet to learn is how objects are used properly.
I mean, just trying to make what I would consider a shortcut on the
desktop to an application, I have not figured out without copying the
whole application to the desktop. But, I confess I have not put much
time into it since it's just for fun to tinker around with since I
couldn't back in the day. :-)
And for my Offline QWK Mail reading, I use DOSBOX-X with Blue Wave 2.3.
Operating systems have become applications that allow me to run sub
applications. Hahaha.
... We'll try to keep the dog off your lawn. Sisko
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