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« on: 2007.05.24, 04:11:59 »
Thank you, everybody, for the feedback. Don't assume that I, or anyone else, already knows. . . . . I learn from each post.
I've got a good feeling that OS/2, and eCS, will work in Virtual PC on my MAC powerbook. I do not have the new version with the Intel chip. But the older version, where Virtual PC is a emulation of a PC running in the MAC OS X. When I installed, I recall that I could install any windows OS, and DOS. The emlation is a PC, not particular to any OS. Thus, I suspect that I can run OS/2 and eCS.
You also solved the issue of no floppy drive. I actually just learning about eCS. I used OS/2 a decade ago. But seems most software was for WINDOWS, not OS/2. ODIN looks promissing, and I already downloaded, from somewhere.
Drivers for hardware always seemed to be a major problem with OS/2. Problem was finding them. I happen to have some old installation disks, from the mid 1990s. Thus, some printers, as I am sure you know, came with driver disk, which included OS/2 drivers.
On network, I used Novell Netware, extensively. One of my earlier Novell supplied Client disks, has OS/2 client. But more recent client disks seem to have dropped OS/2. Nothing is wrong with earlier OS/2 client.
I recall problems with using Thinkpad 770z with docking station III. Problem was no OS/2 drivers, or I had troiuble finding. But I was able to get the station to work with Windows NT.
From a business point of view, I needed time to get work done, not searching for drivers, and non existant software for OS/2. This was a key reason that I dropped OS/2. But, as I mentioned, OS/2 is like an old girlfriend, still in love.
One of the major drawbacks of WINDOWS was often crashed, or simply stopped working. Kind of like driving down an Interstate highway, and the car stops all of a sudden in busy traffic. A crash. My staff had option, back then, to use DOS. They used DOS, and everything in WINDOWS was DOS compatible. Nice compromise.
OS/2 has a lot of characteristics that my staff liked about DOS. Basically, fast response. My head secretary, ten years ago, could type faster than WINDOWS WORDPERFECT could handle. DOS WORDPERFECT was no problem, however. I suspect the DOS WORDPERFECT running in OS/2 would have had same fast response as DOS.
I recall using OS/2 on my early Thinkpads around 1995. OS/2 v3 and later v4, then was quite impressive. I liked OS./2 very much. But the same Thinkpad could not handle WINDOWS NT. Not enough memory, or fast enough processor.
Well. Some of my past experience with OS/2.
W3HYM -- DAVID