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To help on a potential Warpstock presentation, would you please list ...

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JTA:
... any and all "problems" you have with OS/2 (4.52) or ArcaOS, on any hardware you currently run these OS's on. It can be any hardware (device driver), software (apps), os (4.52 or ArcaOS), etc.

Examples (recently seen on the forums):
  - can't run a modern 64-bit browser inside of 32-bit OS/2 or ArcaOS, while OS is booted up standalone on modern hardware with tons of ram; a modern 64-bit browser is a must when trying to work in any OS.
  - compiler time (long-running compile jobs), trying to squeeze everything into a single OS/2 ram-limited environment

I want to ensure I've both correctly characterized the problems, and that any solution I come up with does indeed solve those problems.

We don't know everyone else's particular "pain points" ... please list yours, anything you can think of, if you can spare some time!

Neil Waldhauer:
I appreciate what you are doing to make a Warpstock presentation.

OK, picture I am on Linux or Windows, and I'm running ArcaOS inside a VirtualBox session. I'm also running a web browser on the host platform. Inside that web browser, I have dozens or even hundreds of tabs open. Those tabs are running diverse web applications, such as office suites, email clients and database front ends.

From time to time, the web browser is going to call a native app. I want it to be possible to configure that native app to be an OS/2 app running in the ArcaOS session. I also want the OS/2 WPURL object to open a web page on the host in a reasonable way. These two capabilities shouldn't be difficult, but do require some specific OS/2 customization.

This should have been easy with DSOM. I'm sorry DSOM went away or we would already have these capabilities.

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