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General Discussion / MS os/2 2.0 kernel

« on: March 22, 2024, 01:32:00 am »

I've seen the news on the MS OS/2 2.0 SDK and I got a bit confused. It says that it's a 32 bit kernel running and comes packed with compilers and tools and that's able to run DOS in independent VMs... etc etc.

I was under the impression that all those features were added later by IBM only. I thought the kernel was of IBM making only. This looks like OS/2 2.0 from 1992 without WPS.

Is this the same kernel that evolved into IBM OS/2 2.0 (probably) or is it a different kernel? and are the tools of any use today?

Does anyone knows

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General Discussion / OS/2 1.0 online simulator

« on: March 04, 2019, 11:12:47 pm »

Please check a very interesting site that has many 80's PC machines simulated using javascript. One of them is OS/2 1.0 and includes an SDK. Very cool stuff

https://www.pcjs.org/disks/pcx86/os2/ibm/1.0/

Bye

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Hardware / Time for a OS/2 box

« on: April 03, 2018, 11:42:45 pm »

After reading about the history and evolution of Amiga and now about Apple thinking on moving away from Intel, I came to the thought that maybe we should try to find a way to create a box specially design to run the latest OS/2 without having to worry about compatibility issues and it would focus efforts on one set of requirements (drivers and features like hardware 3D ... and some other dreams).

I know that some vendors offer boxes that are 100% tested to run OS/2, but this is more on the line of a BeBox or the Amiga example. Times are different now than back in the late 90's when Intel/Microsoft would crush any resistance...


What do you guys think?... what about PS/2 .... haha!

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Programming / Re: OS/4 ? QSINIT ?

« on: November 13, 2015, 01:35:14 am »

Amen

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Events / Re: OS/2 - eCS - Blue Lion - Wishlist 2015

« on: November 02, 2015, 03:56:31 pm »

- Java 1.7
- Updated POSTGRES
- Eclipse IDE or Netbeans