Comments on: OS/2 4.0 the final frontier https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/05/26/os2-4-0-the-final-frontier/ Fun with Virtualization Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:27:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/05/26/os2-4-0-the-final-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-27237 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:27:27 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=760#comment-27237 In reply to Peter Dassow.

I may check it out, although after warp 4, I (and the world to most extent) lost interest in OS/2 … I didn’t like where it was going, and fundamental things felt like they were never going to improve (3d, smp .. networking that wasn’t from 1988) ..

]]> By: Peter Dassow https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/05/26/os2-4-0-the-final-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-27177 Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:49:36 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=760#comment-27177 And btw… there is a review of that Demo CD, too.
http://toastytech.com/guis/ecsd.html
On page 3 of that review, the author wrote:
“eComStation is compatible with older OS/2 apps both 16-bit (from OS/2 1.x) and 32 bit.
The full version can also run REXX, Java, DOS, Windows 3.x, and some Win32s programs. ”

So it means there is still Win32s Support ?!?

]]> By: Peter Dassow https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/05/26/os2-4-0-the-final-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-27176 Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:46:19 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=760#comment-27176 Why don’t you download eComStation Demo CD ?
See http://www.ecomstation.com/democd/ …

]]> By: bamdad https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/05/26/os2-4-0-the-final-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-526 Mon, 30 May 2011 10:48:43 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=760#comment-526 when i read ‘hello old friend, it’s time to go to the end..’ i honestly almost cried.

i had high hopes for os/2 back then, and was really really sad to see it go. although the big blue did an insanely crappy job marketing and selling it, it was a great alternative to windows (especially the non-nt line), with much better dos integration etc.

are you planning on upgrading this vm to ecomstation perchance? : )

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/05/26/os2-4-0-the-final-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-527 Mon, 30 May 2011 10:20:47 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=760#comment-527 I do have to say that of all the OS/2 people I knew I was the only one back then to buy OS/2 4.0 … It was a much hyped release but it came far too little too late. And I have to admit, that I wound up buying a dual processor machine shortly thereafter to run Windows NT 4.0 at home.

I think I may have run OS/2 4.0 for a month. Probably less. The ‘big’ issues were simply that there were no real native applications for OS/2, and the world was finally moving away from Win16, and even Win32s wasn’t a solution anymore. Not to mention Linux was playing catch-up in terms of Wine/DosEMU and the living hell that is X11… NT 4.0 & 95 really changed everything there.

As for ecom … I really don’t know, other than I’m not rushing to spend the needed $150-250 on something that I’m honestly not going to use. Not to mention looking at all of this, OS/2 2.0 and 2.1 really were perfectly fine for my use… And hell my recent copy of OS/2 2.0 cost me $5. Although I think I’ve owned it at least 5x now… lol I hate losing disks, but this time I’ve emailed myself a copy of them so that I hopefully don’t lose them!!!!

And in a way since OS/2 4.0 was the final end user sold release this is the end of that road. And it’s just so insane how badly OS/2 4.0 broke the upgrade chain. I really feel that the last release in the ‘spirit’ of OS/2 really is 3. I don’t know if anyone reviewed it came to anywhere near the same conclusion as I did for 4.0 but I really really don’t like it..!! Esp. now that I do have native applications.

While I do have fond memories of OS/2 it’s just that. In the past memories. Even with its Netscape (if you can find it, and get it to run) it’s just terrible. I recall it crashing like crazy back then, but now it’s over the top unstable with the JavaScript heavy world we live in.

Probably the ‘best’ feature of OS/2 4.0 is that the VirtualPC extensions will run without any trouble allowing the shared folder support. Other than that really it’s a bust. Epically if you have IBM’s full TCP/IP pack for any prior release of OS/2.

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