Comments on: Upgrading through OS/2; Version 2.1

By: neozeed

neozeed — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:59:53 +0000

In reply to dru. Thanks for the insight, I guess it explains why the EE's needed a separate install.. Funny how such hoarding lead to a partnership with Sybase which led to MS SQL Server.. What ever happened to Indeo?

By: dru

dru — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:42:41 +0000

The multimedia extensions were a separate install because of the licensing terms IBM had with MS. IBM wanted to keep Software Motion Video proprietary. Things that were on the OS/2 install were cross-licensed at that point in history. This changed with the infamous ‘divorce’. Also, select Win32s apps could run on OS/2 depending on the features needed and Win32s library version. I recall running Matlab for Windows on OS/2. Microsoft started playing cat-and-mouse games, releasing fixes and updates that would break Win-OS2.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:59:37 +0000

In reply to Nick B..

It is a shame that they killed Virtual PC, removed everything cool about it, and made it a glorified IE6 hosting platform…

Thanks for the Video driver tip though!

And yes, service pack, service pack, service pack!

By: Nick B.

Nick B. — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:08:10 +0000

I have 2.11 working in Virtual PC. It was a bit picky installing the S3 graphics drivers though and I had to roll back a few times before I found the right ones.
– Installed the base system from floppy images (clean install).
– Installed Fixpack XR06200.
– Installed S3 graphics driver from after making floppy images from eng30316.zip.

The S3 graphics installation failed on the first couple of attempts as I hadn’t applied the Fixpack.

Thank goodness for Winimage!