Greetings and thanks for reading this.
I'm curious as to the most modern hardware OS/2 will run on. I had an old
AMD box from the early 2000s but it won't load on it. I'll guess it's due
to the USB ports? I may be in error. It's been 20 years since I've used OS/2 and thought it'd be kind of cool to play with it again.

Thanks for any input.


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N1uro wrote (2021-09-09):

Greetings and thanks for reading this.
I'm curious as to the most modern hardware OS/2 will run on.

I cannot give you an answer to that question, but I guess it depends on the OS/2 version.
2.11, Warp 3, Warp 4, Server 4.52, eComStation, ArcaOS?

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Quoting N1uro to All <=-

Greetings and thanks for reading this.
I'm curious as to the most modern hardware OS/2 will run on. I had an
old AMD box from the early 2000s but it won't load on it. I'll guess
it's due to the USB ports? I may be in error. It's been 20 years since I've used OS/2 and thought it'd be kind of cool to play with it again.

I always admired and wanted OS/2 back in the day, but could not afford
what I thought were decent specs in hardware to run it, so I settled for Windows 3.1 like many others.

Today I play around with it occasionally in VirtualBox. If you can't get
it to run on your hardware, you can at least play with it in a VM. :-)

~Elf



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Hello Oli;

Oli wrote to N1uro <=-

I cannot give you an answer to that question, but I guess it depends on the OS/2 version. 2.11, Warp 3, Warp 4, Server 4.52, eComStation,
ArcaOS?

I was looking to reinstall Warp 4. 3 was a tad buggy especially in regards
to DOS routines.

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Hey Elf;

Elf wrote to N1URO <=-

I always admired and wanted OS/2 back in the day, but could not afford what I thought were decent specs in hardware to run it, so I settled
for Windows 3.1 like many others.

You can download it free.

Today I play around with it occasionally in VirtualBox. If you can't
get it to run on your hardware, you can at least play with it in a VM.
:-)

I was considering that but wasn't sure how it ran in a VM environment.

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Hey Elf;

Elf wrote to N1URO <=-

You can download it free.

Today I play around with it occasionally in VirtualBox. If you can't
get it to run on your hardware, you can at least play with it in a VM.
:-)

I was considering that but wasn't sure how it ran in a VM environment.

It works great on my system. I run my old school BBS in a VM. I tried to run OS/2 on real hardware and never got it to install. Had problems with video and NIC drivers that caused the install to hang. I run version 4.52 under VirtualBox for Windows. I use SIO to get the "modem" to accept telnet connections. One issue VirtualBox has is it will not map the virtual drive to the host. I have to use FTP to move programs back and forth or make .iso images
an load it in the virtual CD.

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Elf wrote to N1URO <=-

I always admired and wanted OS/2 back in the day, but could not afford what I thought were decent specs in hardware to run it, so I settled
for Windows 3.1 like many others.

It was a great BBS platform, I ran BinkleyTerm and Maximus on it. I was a Novell admin, and all of the utilities were console-based programs. OS/2
could run consoles all day long, and give you a DOS window with a ton of
RAM, since it virtualized all of the drivers.

Getting TCP/IP working alongside IPX/SPX finally forced me to ditch OS/2 and try this Windows NT thing at work.



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Hello Doctor Wade;

Doctor Wade wrote to N1uro <=-

It works great on my system. I run my old school BBS in a VM. I tried
to run OS/2 on real hardware and never got it to install. Had problems with video and NIC drivers that caused the install to hang. I run
version 4.52 under VirtualBox for Windows. I use SIO to get the "modem"
to accept telnet connections. One issue VirtualBox has is it will not
map the virtual drive to the host. I have to use FTP to move programs
back and forth or make .iso images
an load it in the virtual CD.

Thanks for the head's up. I suppose more tinkering is required on my part :)

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Hello poindexter;

poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Elf <=-

It was a great BBS platform, I ran BinkleyTerm and Maximus on it. I was
a Novell admin, and all of the utilities were console-based programs.
OS/2 could run consoles all day long, and give you a DOS window with a
ton of RAM, since it virtualized all of the drivers.

It's great platform to run multiple DOS sessions with as well once you tweek
it up just a tad too.

Getting TCP/IP working alongside IPX/SPX finally forced me to ditch
OS/2 and try this Windows NT thing at work.

I never had an issue running IPX/SPX with OS/2, and I also was a Novell
admin.

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Am 10.09.21 schrieb N1uro@21:4/107 in FSX_RETRO:

Hallo N1uro,

Getting TCP/IP working alongside IPX/SPX finally forced me to ditch
OS/2 and try this Windows NT thing at work.

I never had an issue running IPX/SPX with OS/2, and I also was a Novell admin.

I've just installed Warp 4 on a Pentium-233 with an Intel NIC and the
last Novell Client.
It took a little to understand how to use TCP/IP together with IPX,
but it is working and I can log into my NetWare 4.11 server.

Regards,
Anna

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Hello Anna;

acn wrote to N1uro <=-

I've just installed Warp 4 on a Pentium-233 with an Intel NIC and the
last Novell Client.
It took a little to understand how to use TCP/IP together with IPX,
but it is working and I can log into my NetWare 4.11 server.

Does your P-233 have USB? The Netware client for OS/2 always worked well
for me and I never had an issue with Netware 3 or 4. It's been consistent
for me when I was using OS/2. I also had Apache server running on it. Worked slick.

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Am 11.09.21 schrieb N1uro@21:4/107 in FSX_RETRO:

Hallo N1uro,

Does your P-233 have USB?

AFAIK there is a USB 1 header, but I don't have the breakout panel/
connector for it.
And as I'm using Zip disks for data transfer (and an internal IDE Zip
drive connected to a PCI IDE controller in my main PC), I don't really
need USB there.

The Netware client for OS/2 always worked well for me and I never
had an issue with Netware 3 or 4. It's been consistent for me when
I was using OS/2. I also had Apache server running on it. Worked
slick.

Yes, of course :)

I've used OS/2 in the late 90s as my main OS and really liked it.
Especially when BBSing (either with a terminal program or a point
software like XP), it offered the best serial throughput as the
multitasking was excellent, especially compared to Win95/98.
Serial connections were rock solid, even when other tasks were active
and the download went in the backgroud. So cool to see back then :)

Regards,
Anna

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Hello Anna;

acn wrote to N1uro <=-

AFAIK there is a USB 1 header, but I don't have the breakout panel/ connector for it.
And as I'm using Zip disks for data transfer (and an internal IDE Zip drive connected to a PCI IDE controller in my main PC), I don't really need USB there.

So then if it's detectable it doesn't matter if the panel is there or not... like an older LinkSys router of sorts. They all have USB but no panels.

I've used OS/2 in the late 90s as my main OS and really liked it. Especially when BBSing (either with a terminal program or a point
software like XP), it offered the best serial throughput as the multitasking was excellent, especially compared to Win95/98.
Serial connections were rock solid, even when other tasks were active
and the download went in the backgroud. So cool to see back then :)

I was using OS/2, NetWare 3.x, Linux 1.x and MFNOS (a variant of KA9Q NOS that I ended up working on with the maintainer). I still run linux and MFNOS.

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