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Messages - Martin Iturbide

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Hardware / Re: The last nail in OS/2's coffin
« on: March 21, 2024, 01:29:37 pm »
Hello Ed

Having a 64bit OS/2 system would be nice; but since from what I'm seeing in this thread,  the number of people that can actually do that is slowly decreasing by the year.  Am I right?   Is it possible to even modernize the OS/2 code or does it require a rewrite? 

There had been some discussion about the 64bit kernel for OS/2. - "OS/2 - ArcaOS 64Bits Kernel Discussion"

I'm not an expert but for what we have discuss I can say:
- We don't have the required labor resources to create a 64bit kernel at this moment.
- If we create an OS/2 64bit kernel, it has to be compatible with 32bits, otherwise all the OS/2 software won't work.
- There is no source code available (legally) of the OS/2 kernel, which make it more labor intensive to implement.
- In the case we get an 64bit kernel, we need to have the development tools to start creating 64bit OS/2 applications.
- If we remember the old days, the market had a difficult change to 64bits. Intel Itanium failed, Windows versions were incompatible (Windows XP 64bits), they have to fall back, wait more years to have a easy going 32bits to 64bits application transition.

So, yes it is kind of hard right now. Buy maybe if AI evolves for software development, some development can be automatized requiring less labor.

What is OS/2? the kernel? the applications? the WPS?. My idea is that maybe OS/2 is the desktop experience and the applications we use. That why my approach is more to have an already available 64bit kernel and create the OS/2 interpretation over it.

Regards

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Applications / XWorkplace Xview - Icon Size
« on: March 20, 2024, 09:11:51 pm »
Hello Rich

Do you know if there is a way to increase the icon size on the "Xview" view in XWP?
I was thinking that the right panel was using the standard "Icon view", but I guess it works differently.

It is something on xWorkplace or in DynamicIcons?

Regards

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Article Discussions / Re: Too many cases of "OS/2 is dead, dying, etc"
« on: March 18, 2024, 08:40:21 pm »
Hello

Let's expect the next dead for "April 15th, 2024" when Hobbes NMSU gets disconnected.  ;D ;D ;D

Regards

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Wow !! I never thought it will get that bid.

Thanks for the pointer. I had updated the pictures on the wiki too.

Richard, if you are a collector and you think some interesting pictures are missing on the OS2World wiki, just let me know here.

Regards

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Hi Richard.

I don't have that edition but I like to keep track to the Box/Part Numbers on the OS2World wiki.
If you find one, or at least some pictures, please let me know.
- https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=IBM_OS/2_2.11

I'm not sure if is that easy to track the Part Number, since some boxes seems to see the same 2.1 with an sticker over it. Are those different for the CD-ROM ? I don't know.

Regards

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Networking / Re: [SOLVED] Networking not working In Virtual Box
« on: March 16, 2024, 05:15:15 am »
Hi David
I have a site called OS Collector at https://oscollector.wordpress.com/  where I have shared virtualbox settings for many of my Virtualbox VMs.

That's a very nice site. I guess you already know that some time ago we tried to do some empty OVAs for ArcaOS 5.0. Maybe you can include those on your site. Those empty OVAs helps the user to create an empty VM in VirtualBox, but with all the VM setting already in place.

Regards

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Programming / Re: About somFree
« on: March 15, 2024, 08:31:50 pm »
Thanks for the feedback Rich. I'm keeping the good stuff of your reply.


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Programming / Re: About somFree
« on: March 14, 2024, 07:39:30 pm »
Is it possible to create a SOM Class in OS/2 that runs a Qt GUI interface? Or some kind of "bridge" is missing? Of course it would not be as fast as PM, but just wondering.

IMHO, it would be a collossal mistake to weigh the WPS down with all of the baggage that Qt requires (libc, libcx, libcn, etc, etc). Do you really want to risk having your Desktop fail to start because of some ill-considered change to any one of a dozen DLLs? In any case, it isn't SOM that determines what the GUI looks like - it's the developer.

Hi Rich

I'm just only curious about it. I understand that Qt has a lot of dependencies and it will not be as an efficient as PM. But I was just wondering about it as a proof of concept and/or experiment. I understand SOM does not determines how the GUI looks, yes the developer organize the GUI, but PM or Qt is the one that gives you the elements to display GUI things.

I was wondering it as an experiment to have a WPS class that has Qt elements on it, instead of PM.  I'm not suggesting to recreate all the WPS desktop in Qt, not with our current Qt performance.

Regards

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Applications / Re: XWP v1.0.16
« on: March 13, 2024, 10:32:18 pm »
Hello Rich

Is the "IFX Options" GUI also yours?
Can it please be also possible to respect the XWP font size settings?

Regards

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Programming / Re: About somFree
« on: March 13, 2024, 10:22:37 pm »
Thanks for the feedback Lars.

Now I understand that:
- WPS is over SOM 2.0, somFree is a SOM 3.0 implementation. SOM 3 is not backward compatible with 2.x. Which mean we will need the WPS source to reimplement it over SOM 3.0, and we don't have that source code.
- somFree will require the integration with Presentation Manager to work correctly as "OS/2 SOM". That is not documented and will require lots of work.

Just wondering a different thing. Is it possible to create a SOM Class in OS/2 that runs a Qt GUI interface? Or some kind of "bridge" is missing? Of course it would not be as fast as PM, but just wondering.

Regards

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Programming / About somFree
« on: March 13, 2024, 02:54:13 am »
Hello

I just noticed that the somFree project was updated on 2022.
somFree is a portable clean-room implementation of IBM's SOM. Includes DSOM capabilities with CORBA IDL and IIOP

The project list the completeness record here:
- https://sourceforge.net/p/somfree/wiki/complete/

I have the naive dream to eventually see if something from this project can be used on OS/2 to replace some IBM close source components, or even if WPS can be run over some kind of open source version of SOM. But I don't have the skill to asset if something can be done with somFree for out platform.

Any comments if this can be useful ?

Regards

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Applications / Re: Lost / Missing Software for OS/2
« on: March 10, 2024, 08:20:43 pm »
Hello

Just for fun, I'm trying to find any binaries of "Personal AS".
- https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=Personal_AS
I was only able to find the manual.

Regards

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Applications / Re: General Software Testing
« on: March 10, 2024, 08:08:41 pm »
Thanks a lot Tom. It runs now.

Quote
[C:\HOME\DESKTOP\CSV_IMP]csv_imp

CSV to PCM import utility v1.1     (c) cat 2008

start with parameter - path to Thunderbird's CSV file

With your hint, I was able to found the website: https://en.ecomstation.ru/projects/wpperson/?action=sync

Regards

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Applications / Re: General Software Testing
« on: March 10, 2024, 03:54:22 pm »
Hello

Any ideas what is this csv_imp exe ? some kind of csv import command line tool?
I can not run it, since it says it requires "WPPERSDB".

Regards

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Programming / Re: DosDevIOCtl disabling keyboard in VIO mode
« on: March 10, 2024, 03:23:58 am »
Hello.

I may be talking nonsense here, since I'm not a developer, but maybe in general terms these projects can help for some code inspiration for your PDOS efforts with OS/2:
- https://github.com/OS2World/LINUX-SYSTEM-OS2Linux
- https://github.com/icculus/2ine
- https://github.com/osfree-project/osfree/tree/ac53235a7bc2a2f91de23e9bf7fdaa9c2c3dc976/OS2/CPI/doscalls

Regards

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