OS/2 Warp (4.52) installation discs


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Hi folks
For those wanting to try OS/2 Warp as a VM these discs work on KVM/QEMU and VBOX

WinWorld: IBM OS2 Warp 4.52 (14.089_W4) (CP 2 Refresh) (2002-04) (ISO)

WinWorld is an online museum dedicated to providing free and open access to one of the largest archives of abandonware software and information on the web.
winworldpc.com

Its a bit convoluted to get it working but I'm interested again in this project !!!! I think though sound and networking might be a bugbear but IBM was always good at networking so this might not be so difficult !! so long as we don't have to use the "dreaded Token Ring" -- anybody remember those things !!!

Note you need both discs -- the boot disk and the "client disc" -- use 7zip to convert the archive (extract) to iso's -- no viruses.

Still messing around with this again -- loads of time over Easter to "waste" -- I AM NOT GOING SHOPPING -- caps intended !!!!!.

Happy Easter everyone.

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So far so good !!

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Now let the fun begin !!!

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cereberus said:
So you have an obsolete OS - what can you do with it of any real use?

In my opinion, nostalgia ain't the same as it used to be.
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Who always needs stuff that are of any real use -- just for fun -- and the OS is actually quite instructive !!!.
E.G why bother riding horses when other ways can do it easier and more efficiently these days -- or who doesn't enjoy an old fashioned Steam train.

Why do people enjoy seeing Dinosaur pics and exhibitions in museums etc -- "Dippy" in London at the Nat. History museum in S.Kensington was always hugely popular but I doubt if you could have got that beast into a modern subway train. , eaten it or ridden it.!!

Some really bonkers ideas though from your NHS -- that really that DO have totally zero use - "medicines for Hollow noses" and I had to check the date -- not Apr 1 -- special items to act as "Nostril Liners" for drippy noses. !!!!! Surely even your terrible NHS has advanced slightly beyond 15th cent Quack Medicine practices.

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jimbo45 said:
Who always needs stuff that are of any real use -- just for fun -- and the OS is actually quite instructive !!!.
E.G why bother riding horses when other ways can do it easier and more efficiently these days -- or who doesn't enjoy an old fashioned Steam train.

Why do people enjoy seeing Dinosaur pics and exhibitions in museums etc -- "Dippy" in London at the Nat. History museum in S.Kensington was always hugely popular but I doubt if you could have got that beast into a modern subway train. , eaten it or ridden it.!!

Some really bonkers ideas though from your NHS -- that really that DO have totally zero use - "medicines for Hollow noses" and I had to check the date -- not Apr 1 -- special items to act as "Nostril Liners" for drippy noses. !!!!! Surely even your terrible NHS has advanced slightly beyond 15th cent Quack Medicine practices.

Cheers
jimbo
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Huh - I understand concept of fun or challenge but I fail to see how installing OS 2 is fun other thsn maybe the satisfaction of doing it but I still am bemused of the idea of installing an obsolete OS without any tangible benefit e.g. I can understand why people install XP to run some old games that cannot be run on modern Windows.

If I installed OS2, my next thought would be '"what do I do now?"

Its like going to effort of plugging in an old betamax to a modern TV without AV sockets and then realising you actually have no videos to play.
 

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OS/2 does have a continued existence and is not as obsolete as you might think. It is still used in some environments; and its use is actively supported, at a cost :-) . See ArcaOS

For the casual user of the original there's plenty of archived software online to 'play' with.
 

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Mid 90's where I worked our LAN's used IBM Token Ring for communications (not Ethernet). We had IBM "LAN Network Manager" program for network management and monitoring. That application required OS/2 and we had 80486 machines to run it.
 

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If I went through this exercise, it would be entirely for fun and yes the satisfaction of doing it. Just installed 7zip on Manjaro from AUR so that's a start.
 

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Sometimes is the journey what is fun not the end of it. I enjoy more the building process than the final product.
 

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