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General Discussion / Re: Brainstorm: What is Next with OS/2 ?
« Last post by Roderick Klein on April 01, 2025, 08:12:08 am »
memory issues:
as I understand, libc uses shared memory.
there were attempts to make it use HighMem.
There were discussions, there were announcements.
there were attempts to patch exe files to use HighMem.

But current situation: you can start Firefox and OpenOffice only 1 time.
if you load this heavy apps then memory is occupied and you should reboot system to use firefox again.
Java VM (I don't remember, does it depend on libc), is consuming low memory too.

Question: what is the current state of libc ? it was modified?

P.S. It's not a claim. I make  technical request.

I think its kernel 14.203 from Arca Noae that resolves this issue. High memory with older kernel (if DLL's are loaded high into memory) and then unloaded the memory is not released.
Using the latest ArcaOS kernel this should work.

Roderick
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General Discussion / Re: Brainstorm: What is Next with OS/2 ?
« Last post by Digi on April 01, 2025, 04:24:41 am »
How about an OS/2 or ARCOS without Windows and DOS? Wouldn't that be easier?

I think that DOS (and Win-OS2) should have been thrown out of the system many years ago. :-)
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Programming / Re: [Classic REXX] Network Map
« Last post by Remy on April 01, 2025, 01:20:57 am »
Hi Jan-Erik
Sorry having added a lof of codes  ::)
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General Discussion / Re: EDM/2 Wiki Issue
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on March 31, 2025, 10:31:56 pm »
Hello

Adrian wrote me today with the good news that he had made some progress with the EDM/2 wiki hosted in Netlabs.

https://www.edm2.com

The Wiki is now updated and it is available, it is looking fine for the moment. It is read only until Adrian finds out how to connect it to the LDAP.

Just to let you know how bad it is the spam, the wiki was open for registration and it was hit very hard by spam. EDM/2 was only open for 4 hours and 20 spam account were created and started posting articles. I think I had blocked all and deleted the spam.

Regards
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Programming / Re: [Classic REXX] Network Map
« Last post by Remy on March 31, 2025, 08:56:16 pm »
I just had an idea !

Now, at first time run with FLC=1, a macaddr.cfg is created with a list of your home network devices in the form of  " @mac @ip hostname "
For UHost-xxx or names not well describing the device, you can change the hostname from into this cfg file
During the process, I only check for the corresponding @mac and not @ip and only those @mac having hostname changed, the change is taken and the icon will
display the user setted hostname but into the parameters, initial hostname is always left intact to allow correct process.

:D     
 
note, in my case, I replaced a host-002 sent by my Router/DNS to my Streamer real name.
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Programming / Re: [Classic REXX] Network Map
« Last post by Remy on March 31, 2025, 07:32:58 pm »
Corrected some code and added gateway, uc identifier
Added a refresh icon without arp flash.
(to have both refesh pgm icons created, change for only one run:
/* 'SET WOL=1' */  to  'SET WOL=1'
/* 'SET NET=1' */  to  'SET NET=1'
/* 'SET FLC=1' */  to  'SET FLC=1'

At end of run, set this line as it was originally.

Restriction: display network devices @mac under one sub-node only

For icons: https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,3867.msg47719.html#msg47719

     
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General Discussion / Re: Brainstorm: What is Next with OS/2 ?
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on March 31, 2025, 02:14:31 pm »
Hello Klafi
Dear all,
How about an OS/2 or ARCOS without Windows and DOS? Wouldn't that be easier?

Thanks everyone

I personally don't use the DOS VDM and Win-OS/2 as a vital thing of OS/2, but I was amazed to to see some years ago the quantity of people defending it because they run a DOS or Win16 software on it.

If you think that ArcaOS without DOS VDM and Win-OS/2 will make it easier because some patent or fee that is currently part of Microsoft, and will make ArcaOS cheaper, I don't think so. It looks to me that IBM has the right over the MS binaries included in OS/2 and there is no active money exchange anymore. I think of this because the IBM and Microsoft Jointly development agreement that I was able to read, it says that both parties has the right of the source code exchanged there.

I also don't think that DOS VDM and Win-OS/2 is the only limitation for IBM not to open source OS/2. There is also a lot of MS code in PM, Kernel, drivers and also code from third parties (Adobe). Even that I think that Microsoft won't be a problem when open sourcing OS/2, I think IBM does not want to take the risk without a good business case that provides them more benefits then trouble.

But I'm open to other opinion and ideas.

Regards
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General Discussion / Re: Brainstorm: What is Next with OS/2 ?
« Last post by Klafi on March 31, 2025, 11:44:03 am »
Dear all,
How about an OS/2 or ARCOS without Windows and DOS? Wouldn't that be easier?

Thanks everyone
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Programming / Re: An XWorkplace CPU Temperature Widget for AMD CPUs
« Last post by Doug Clark on March 31, 2025, 05:24:37 am »
Lars,

I tried your new version and it doesn't work on my processor.  Thank you for trying.

The cpu temperature widget contained in standard xcenter monitor.dll also doesn't work.  I think I saw somewhere that ACPI on this machine does not report temperature in the proper way - and my memory was I saw that in the acpid log file - but I turned logging back on and now can't find that message.  So maybe I am mis-remembering this.

This is only a 6 core processor, with the factory cooler for the processor, in a desktop case with good ventilation.  I am not too worried about excessive processor temperatures.  I don't compile large projects, like Dave or Jack.  I have a wattage meter on the machine and the highest consumption spike I have seen is 120 watts - and that is during bootup.

Thanks again Lars for your work on this, and all the other projects you have done for OS/2.
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Hello Jack, welcome to the forum.

DavidR kept the discussion about this on the VirtualBox Forum, check it out:
- https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=113195

I asked also to test some OS/2 OVAs on the MacOS Host, and they told me those works fine. At the end it was told that possible the Apple hypervisor sometimes give this kind of errors, but VMWare was performing better, so it brings a lot of doubts.

DavidR, did you opened a ticket for it?

Regards
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