OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Games
MAME 0.151 ROMs
ivan:
Martin, you mention ACPI as being almost the prime mover for eCS but I have to ask what good does it do on a desktop computer or a server?
We are running 2, 4, and 6 core processor desktops and servers using the old os2apic.psd seeing all cores and not seeing any problems while a friend was having problems with his new 4 core desktop and the eCS acpi psd. When we changed it to the OS/2 psd the problems went away.
Yes, I can see where it might help with a laptop, assuming the suspend/ resume works reliably but I don't see it as the game changing application so mant people make it out to be.
Martin Iturbide:
Hi Ivan.
Well, my point is that I'm trying to make a case that IBM's OS/2 installers can be turned for public preservation on archive.org. (and in a legal way)
If anybody will like to discuss this point of view I will welcome it.
Regards
Dave Yeo:
--- Quote from: Martin Iturbide on December 31, 2013, 01:27:13 am ---Hi Ivan.
Well, my point is that I'm trying to make a case that IBM's OS/2 installers can be turned for public preservation on archive.org. (and in a legal way)
If anybody will like to discuss this point of view I will welcome it.
Regards
--- End quote ---
Considering that the bank machine at my bank seems to use OS/2 along with various other pieces of infrastructure and such also using it I doubt that it would be considered obsolete. Same with the hardware, floppy drives are still sold and hardware isn't that much different then what OS/2 is designed to use, as eCS shows it just needs updated drivers and it runs well.
Compare to the Mame roms which I understand mostly ran on specialized arcade systems that haven't been made in years and often the company itself is long gone.
Martin Iturbide:
Hi Dave
Good points, but it can be debatable.
- ATMs running OS/2 are legacy ATMs, the new ones with newer processor will not run it.
- Even that a diskette drive can be bought, I don't think that it will make it non-obsolete.
But I think that it will be good to ask someone at archive.org with more experience on this. I will see if I can find someone.
Any more discussion to be prepared is welcome.
Regards
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