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Article Discussions / Re: NY Subway switching to contactless
« on: December 19, 2019, 04:20:04 pm »
You should have been at Warpstock this year. We had 8 model 77 PS/2 absolutely loaded machines that you could have taken home. It was the biggest giveaway ever.

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Hardware / Re: PCIe parallel port card
« on: December 17, 2019, 03:23:32 am »
The chip seems to say CH382 on it. The entire chip case is 6mm square, and the print is tiny. The box says WCH382. There are more numbers, but they are very difficult to read. I think Martin is correct about the Vendor ID/Chip ID.

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Hardware / PCIe parallel port card
« on: December 16, 2019, 06:23:59 pm »
I've got an IOCrest PCI-Express parallel port card WCH 382 which I wanted to use for a second parallel port.

I think this ought to work with PRINT01.SYS, but so far, I do not have any success. I use /V so I can see the one parallel port, but no second port appears, so I guess the card is not recognized.

I have tried the updated driver on OS/2 World
https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Updated_PRINT01.SYS

I have attached a pci output for the computer.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Partitioning Recommendations
« on: December 14, 2019, 03:00:04 pm »
I don't think there is a best partitioning scheme for everyone. I build systems for people, and for me the following works best.

X: 1.75 GB FAT16 Maint - the ArcaOS installer environment, modified to run maintenance programs
C: 10 GB JFS  ArcaOS and programs
J:  10 GB JFS  ArcaOS and programs
K:  10 GB JFS  ArcaOS and programs
P:  10 GB JFS  ArcaOS and programs
D: 1948 GB Data

I have 4 ArcaOS partitions because I experiment a lot. The Home directory is on each boot drive, but Home data points to various places on the D: drive. UNIXROOT is on the boot drive as well.

The D: drive is mirrored using rsync onto one or more backup computers, and also onto two external drives that may be off-site. Backups of the ArcaOS boot drives are on the D: drive.

I also have a modified ArcaOS installer on a USB thumb drive

O: 1.75 GB ArcaOS installer
U: (rest of USB stick disk space) Stick Data

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Hardware / Re: OS/2 Driver Requirement Brainstorming
« on: December 11, 2019, 06:54:35 pm »
I think you are right about a bounty for NVMe. We already have an open source AHCI driver. That could provide some basis for a device driver programmer to implement NVMe, but have all the OS/2 support stuff already coded and tested.

http://trac.netlabs.org/ahci

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General Advertisements / Re: ArcaOS 5.0 on ebay
« on: December 02, 2019, 04:09:03 am »
If you would like to know how much one of these costs shipped to your location, I suggest following the links. I'm using ebay to handle international shipping, so shipping charges are really up to them.

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General Discussion / OS/2 Article on Ars Technica
« on: November 29, 2019, 06:07:39 pm »
There is a long article on OS/2 in Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/half-an-operating-system-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-os2/

It was a cloudy Seattle day in late 1980, and Bill Gates, the young chairman of a tiny company called Microsoft, had an appointment with IBM that would shape the destiny of the industry for decades to come.

He went into a room full of IBM lawyers, all dressed in immaculately tailored suits. Bill’s suit was rumpled and ill-fitting, but it didn’t matter. He wasn’t here to win a fashion competition.

Over the course of the day, a contract was worked out whereby IBM would purchase, for a one-time fee of about $80,000, perpetual rights to Gates’ MS-DOS operating system for its upcoming PC. IBM also licensed Microsoft’s BASIC programming language, all that company's other languages, and several of its fledging applications. The smart move would have been for Gates to insist on a royalty so that his company would make a small amount of money for every PC that IBM sold.

But Gates wasn’t smart. He was smarter.

In exchange for giving up perpetual royalties on MS-DOS, which would be called IBM PC-DOS, Gates insisted on retaining the rights to sell DOS to other companies. The lawyers looked at each other and smiled. Other companies? Who were they going to be? IBM was the only company making the PC. Other personal computers of the day either came with their own built-in operating system or licensed Digital Research’s CP/M, which was the established standard at the time.

Gates wasn’t thinking of the present, though. “The lesson of the computer industry, in mainframes, was that over time people built compatible machines,” Gates explained in an interview for the 1996 PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds. As the leading manufacturer of mainframes, IBM experienced this phenomenon, but the company was always able to stay ahead of the pack by releasing new machines and relying on the power of its marketing and sales force to relegate the cloners to also-ran status.

The personal computer market, however, ended up working a little differently. PC Cloners were smaller, faster, and hungrier companies than their mainframe counterparts. They didn’t need as much startup capital to start building their own machines, especially after Phoenix and other companies did legal, clean-room, reverse-engineered implementations of the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) that was the only proprietary chip in the IBM PC’s architecture. To make a PC clone, all you needed to do was put a Phoenix BIOS chip into your own motherboard design, design and manufacture a case, buy a power supply, keyboard, and floppy drive, and license an operating system. And Bill Gates was ready and willing to license you that operating system.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/half-an-operating-system-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-os2/

[follow the link for the rest of the story]

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General Advertisements / ArcaOS 5.0 on ebay
« on: November 22, 2019, 07:14:59 pm »


Blonde Guy is now offering ArcaOS 5.0 on ebay. This is intended to make the English language ArcaOS DVD available outside the USA and Canada.

ArcaOS 5.0 Commercial DVD including 12 months of support.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/362907943853

ArcaOS 5.0 Personal DVD including 6 months of support.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/324066323069

ArcaOS 5.0 (Media only) DVD If you already have an ArcaOS license, you can send me the URL of the .ISO.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/362907912072

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Utilities / Re: graphic interface for smartahci
« on: November 22, 2019, 03:23:27 pm »
For the current Arca Noae AHCI driver, smartctl from Hobbes (listed as smartmontools) works. But how do I get a nice display like smartmon and DaniS506 used to give me?

The data is there if I use smartctl -a ahci1

OK, smartctl -A ahci1 seems to give a black and white version of the smartmon display.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Screen Size
« on: November 06, 2019, 12:50:34 am »
You know, there must be such a table, because Panorama uses the Gradd driver, and it can set up quite a range of resolutions.

Of course, you could just use Panorama. Still, it would be nice to have a utility to set up Gradd, much like PanoUtil does for Panorama.

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Programming / Re: Porting Lilypond to OS/2 - eCS - Arca Noae
« on: November 05, 2019, 03:35:49 pm »
I think most or all of the requirements you are listing can be installed on OS/2 with rpm/yum.

If you are already a Linux user, then maybe you can build Lilypond on Linux. Then you can try to do the same on OS/2 with the same or similar shell and tools.

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Setup & Installation / Re: old eCS CDs
« on: October 26, 2019, 05:17:41 pm »
Suntan Special provides a superior method of installing SmartSuite and all its fixes.

http://www.blondeguy.com/suntan6.html

First, it enables all options on the installer, Second, it fixes many config.sys items that aren't quite right on eComStation or ArcaOS of even MCP. You still need your own copy of Lotus SmartSuite v1.7.


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Please read the web page that Martin quoted above.

The T540p is an excellent choice for ArcaOS. But follow the advice in the article. Set the BIOS the way it says. And if you have a T540p with NVidia video, trade it in for one with Intel video.

Alternatively, just buy my T540p. :)

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Hardware / HP Printer support
« on: October 11, 2019, 03:48:15 pm »
The support in Cups for HP printers has been very good. But it's getting stale. If I look at printers in retail outlets or on-line, I'm no longer seeing support.

I'm looking at two consumer-grade color laser printers. These printers are cheap to buy, but expensive to buy new toner, which is appropriate for a home or business with modest printing needs.

The HP printer driver is called hplip, and we have version 3.17.11-1 at Netlabs, which can be installed by RPM/YUM.

My old M252dw has been replaced by M254dw, and needs 3.18.5 or later. The slightly fancier M454dw needs 3.19.6 or later.

I don't know how difficult it is to port the hplip software, but supporting at least one brand of printer is strategic, and HP is at least commonly sold in USA. They are also good at recycling used toner cartridges.

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Internet / Re: PMMail and EARLYMEMINIT=TRUE problem?
« on: October 10, 2019, 05:25:39 pm »
If no POPUPLOG.OS2 entry is created, then are any .TRP files created? If so, these could contain a clue to what is going wrong.

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