Comments on: IBM OS/2 J2.1 Beta Release (aka 90’s CD-ROM done right)

By: UnoGeeks Training

UnoGeeks Training — Fri, 09 May 2025 10:40:25 +0000

This is a great read.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 23:10:10 +0000

In reply to Nick B.. Back then it was such a cool feature. I guess the problem being is that now running OS/2 virtually means that you can just run all those DOS directly and virtually. It was pretty neat though

By: Nick B.

Nick B. — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 21:32:06 +0000

One feature of OS/2 I seldom see mentioned – DOS from Drive A:, where you could boot up a different version of DOS running under OS/2. You could also make an image of a floppy using OS/2’s VMDISK command and replace DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE A: with the image (handy if A and B drives were different sizes).

And I can do all this with my virtual OS/2 2.0 on 86Box.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 18:10:11 +0000

In reply to Random. Yeah it was always crazy it was never retail or pushed/combined with the dos/windows

By: Random

Random — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 09:30:16 +0000

> I was more interested in Borland C++ 2 for OS/2 but there was also this Japanese beta of 2.1

This leaped out at me, and I don’t remember seeing it around so I hunted it down on Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/borlandc2.0

Someone linked to the wayback machine copy of Borland’s site in the reviews as a nifty treat, too.