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jkpalmer:
Hi,

I had OS/2 Warp back in the 90's but finally had to surrender to the Windows world.

I would like to acquire OS/2 again and begin tinkering with it as I approach retirement.

Over time, I've misplaced my CDs for installing, so my questions are:


* Where is the best place to purchase OS/2 Warp 3?
* What are the minimum hardware requirements?
* Can Warp run in a Virtual Machine, like Parallels for Mac?
Help greatly appreciated.

-Jp

Martin Iturbide:
Hi, welcome back to the community.


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* Where is the best place to purchase OS/2 Warp 3?
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If you want to find an older version of OS/2 the best place is ebay. If you want to have the latest incarnation of OS/2 you should wait (let's hope friday) to buy ArcaOS 5.0.


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* What are the minimum hardware requirements?
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Very minimum compared to today''s hardware. If you want to run it on a VM you require a processor with Intel VTX and AMD virtualization, which is basically all the moderns processor like i3, i5, i7. You can run a VM with 1GB or 2GB or RAM (or even less). It depends on what you are going to do.


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* Can Warp run in a Virtual Machine, like Parallels for Mac?
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OS/2 Warp 3, 4 , eComStation runs as a VirtualBox guest.
The OS2World wiki has some notes about it that may help you to configure the VM.

Give it a try !!!

Regards

Update: Corrected ArcaOS Version.

Dave Yeo:
Hi Jim,
If you really want to do anything with OS/2, you really need Warp v4.5, Warp v4 + all the free fixes. If you want to install on modern hardware, as Martin said, ArcaOS should be out soon.
Things like Firefox use a lot of memory and older OS/2 is limited to 512 MB process space.
If you've owned a license, there are ISOs of the various Warp releases out there on abandoned software sites. Virtual box works well if you want to go that route.

ak120:

--- Quote from: Jim Palmer on March 27, 2017, 01:47:33 pm ---Where is the best place to purchase OS/2 Warp 3?
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There are enough resellers that still have packages listed. Originally most of the Warp 3 products were withdrawn in 1999. But it should not be impossible nowadays.

If you could specify your Warp 3 product (and NLS version) I can look for a package. There have been a lot of different packages:
*Warp 3, Warp 3 with Win-OS/2 (both in Floppy and CD-ROM versions)
*Warp Connect, Warp Connect with Win OS/2
*Warp Server Version 4, Warp Server Advanced Version 4


--- Quote ---What are the minimum hardware requirements?
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For Warp 3 any IBM compatible PC with at least a 386 processor, 8 MB RAM, 3,5"-floppy, CD-ROM drive and Harddisk should be enough. The last supported mobile devices were IBM ThinkPad 770. So everything up to Pentium MMX or AMD K6 class machines will work without trouble.


--- Quote ---Can Warp run in a Virtual Machine, like Parallels for Mac?
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Yes, of course. But Parallels supported guest OS start with OS/2 Warp 4. The reason for this is the shipped audio device driver which is included in their ISO image of guest integration stuff. By applying later fixpaks to the base operating system it could be made possible under Warp 3. Not straightforward and time-consuming for the uninitiated.

With Warp 4 product everything is much more simple. And as Dave already noted, it allows to raise the base operating system level (4.50) comparable to Warp Server for e-business (without LVM and SMP features) by applying the latest available fixpaks. It should be possible to acquire a used Warp 4 package for $50-60.

Greggory Shaw:

--- Quote from: Jim Palmer on March 27, 2017, 01:47:33 pm ---Hi,

...

Over time, I've misplaced my CDs for installing, so my questions are:

...

Help greatly appreciated.

-Jp

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Well, since you already bought a license check out - https://winworldpc.com/product/os-2-warp-4/os-2-warp-452

:)

But as Martin stated, "should wait (let's hope friday) to buy ArcaOS 5.0."

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