Arca Noae and OS/2

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Author John Martin Alfredsson
Date 2021
OS Version ArcaOS 5.x
Companion File N/A
Source Archived
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Translated from Swedish to English with Google Translate
New company takes over responsibility for the development of OS/2

IBM, which took on the responsibility for providing support for and further developing OS/2 after Microsoft gave up on their collaboration, has long struggled with the problem of developing this system. Now, at least, a new version of OS/2 Warp has been shown at a trade fair called Warpstock 2015. This was then called Blue Lion, but would later get a different name. Here, everyone interested also knew, just like me, that IBM had had major problems with OS/2 Warp. They had received a lot of negative criticism and struggled with major support problems. Despite the criticism, there were still many companies that depended on and actually liked this operating system.

Here, a contract was signed between IBM and Arca Noae that contained an agreement to create a new version of OS/2 Warp. This would then be based on version 4.52 and this system's basic SMP kernel. This is something that went surprisingly well. Today, OS/2 still exists, where it has been renamed ArcaOS. In this way, all the companies and servers that still used this system during the problematic times are also the ones that continue to use it today. Here, a completely new and modern system has been created that is suitable for the 21st century, while all the backward compatibility is there to support all previous applications. Now it is ArcaOS 5.0 that applies

Although this does not apply to me at all and my opinion of OS/2 Warp, as I would rather look back and miss the old, this version and modern OS will be a reality for those who want to use it. Today, we are talking about a very advanced operating system that has all the functions required for it to work in many situations. Something that can be considered a bit wrong, however, is the price that has been set on the product. Actually, we are talking about an old OS that has been given new life. Of course, the reason for the high price is that those who use it need it. This leads to them choosing to buy this OS, or change everything in the company which would be much more costly. OS/2 Warp is not the only interesting OS out there

Now, you who are reading this should not get the impression that I am manic and only love OS/2 Warp in older versions. That is not the case. I may be a little crazy, but definitely not manic. I also like many other operating systems that you can read about in various posts. Some examples of what I find interesting are Linux, BeOS and SunOS to name just a few. Linux goes back a long way. BeOS is a nice variant of both a commercial OS and an Open Source variant. Then we have SunOS which alone also gives me cold chills on the back of the approaching notstagi trip.