Michal Necasek

Michal Necasek is the webmaster of the OS/2 Museum. He was SciTech Display Doctor developer and member of the Open Watcom compiler development team.

Michal has an interesting private hardware collection of "The OS/2 Years". He was a PS/2 laptop and a Thinkpad 720C running OS/2 and he can boot up OS/2 1.0 and 1.1.

He also run once the OS/2 Miniaturization Contest, that was a contest for OS/2 programmers with the goal of creating the smallest possible program fulfilling a set of conditions.

Articles

 * OS/2 2.0, Spring ’91 Edition ( July 10, 2018)
 * VME Broken on AMD Ryzen ( May 12, 2017)
 * OS/2 2.0, Xmas ’91 Edition ( April 26, 2017)
 * OS/2 2.0, Summer ’91 Edition (April 5, 2017)
 * OS/2 2.0 at 25 (March 31, 2017)
 * Something New Every Day… (March 26, 2017)
 * IBM OS/2 1.x Programming Documentation Added ( April 15, 2016)
 * Before OS/2 Was OS/2 (February 5, 2016)
 * Windows NT 3.1 (and OS/2) Memory Detection ( January 15, 2016)
 * OS/2 on ThinkPad T23 and T30 (April 11, 2015)
 * OS/2 Kernel Debugger and MVDM Interrupts (August 29, 2014 )
 * OS/2 2.0 LA and “Large” IDE Disks (26 Jul 2013)
 * The Oldest OS/2 Executable In the Wild (22 Mar 2013)
 * OS/2 2.1 National Language Versions (1 Mar 2013)
 * OS/2 Beta CDs (1994 and later) (15 Feb 2013)
 * OS/2 Easter Eggs (10 Feb 2013)
 * Master Builders of OS/2 (9 Dec 2012)
 * OS/2 for PowerPC Tidbits (16 Nov 2012)
 * OS/2 Filesystem Shootout! (15 May 2002)
 * An OS/2 History Lesson: OS/2 Warp 3 (Jan 2002)
 * An OS/2 History Lesson: OS/2 2.1 (Dec 2001)
 * Using Watcom C/C++ 11.0c on OS/2 (Nov 2001)
 * An OS/2 History Lesson: The Beginnings of OS/2 (Oct 2001)
 * OS/2 Miniaturization Contest (Sep 2001)
 * An OS/2 History Lesson - Ten years ago (Aug 2001)
 * A Short Introduction to LVM and JFS (Nov 2000)


 * Republishing Permission:Michal Necasek gave permission to republish his OS/2 articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license. Martin Iturbide obtained this permission on March 12 of 2013 via e-mail.

Software

 * RxBlFish
 * TTF_text
 * FreeType/2
 * ColorWorks Patch
 * 4OS2 - Open Source

Links

 * Webpage: http://www.os2museum.com/