I am thinking about buying an OS/2 licence since Windows 10 will not be officially supported.

Do internet old school like a generation ago.


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Quoting Utopian Galt to All <=-

I am thinking about buying an OS/2 licence since Windows 10 will not
be officially supported.
Do internet old school like a generation ago.

I run OS/2 on an older IBM P90. I tried adding a network card and the
TCP/IP stack to get it on a network so I could try what you mentioned.

What a mistake that was. Screwed up the system pretty bad. Had issues
even getting it to boot after that. Had to do a re-install from Red
Spine disk to get it working again.

Add to that that no one seems to be able to help when there are issues,
and I gave up. The system works fine, but I can't seem to get it up and
running on the network in order to use the browser.

I still use OS/2, just not as my main OS. I am using Windows 10, but
stopped updating before that shitty 'Co-Pilot' started forcing it's way
into everything.

Guess there's always Linux.

Have a wonderful day UG!

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Utopian Galt wrote to All <=-

I am thinking about buying an OS/2 licence since Windows 10 will not be officially supported.

If your goal is to run an unsupported OS when Windows 10 goes EOL, then
save your money and just keep running Windows 10. :)



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Cougar428 wrote to UTOPIAN GALT <=-

I run OS/2 on an older IBM P90. I tried adding a network card and the
TCP/IP stack to get it on a network so I could try what you mentioned.

What a mistake that was. Screwed up the system pretty bad. Had issues
even getting it to boot after that. Had to do a re-install from Red
Spine disk to get it working again.

Oh, I hated networking. I ran OS/2 Warp in a Novell environment, so I
had a couple of frame types and clients running already. For the life
of me, I couldn't get TCP/IP to play nice with the network stack, so I
ended up putting in a second network card for TCP/IP.

NT 3.51 showed up in our office a while later, and it ended up being my
OS for a couple of years afterwards.


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Re: OS/2
By: Utopian Galt to All on Sun Jun 08 2025 12:40 pm

I am thinking about buying an OS/2 licence since Windows 10 will not be officially supported.

Do internet old school like a generation ago.

OS/2 isn't supported anymore either, and is much older than Windows 10. If your concern is running an OS that's still supported, I'm not sure what your goal would be by switching to OS/2, which is an even older OS..

OS/2 has since switched hands a couple times, and is currently being maintained, but it has been renamed to ArcaOS. If you want a supported OS/2, you might consider buying an ArcaOS license.

https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/

Nightfox
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|11C|09> |10 I still use OS/2, just not as my main OS. I am using Windows 10, but|07
|11C|09> |10 stopped updating before that shitty 'Co-Pilot' started forcing it's way|07
|11C|09> |10 into everything.|07
Co-Pilot is the reason why I am stopping my subscription to Microsoft Office. Will use Libre Office.


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|11N|09> |10OS/2 isn't supported anymore either, and is much older than Windows 10. |07
|11N|09> |10If your concern is running an OS that's still supported, I'm not sure|07
|11N|09> |10what your goal would be by switching to OS/2, which is an even older|07
|11N|09> |10OS..|07
Its for DOS support. I could mess around with older software :)


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Utopian Galt wrote to Nightfox <=-

Its for DOS support. I could mess around with older software :)

It truly was a better DOS than DOS. It multitasked DOS windows smoothly,
lots of free memory, and you could even create a virtual DOS environment
with "real" DOS 6.22.

Back in the 90s, I ran the BBS on DOS, ran OS/2 on my desktop, and used LANTastic networking. They didn't have an OS/2 client, so I created a
DOS VDM with MS-DOS and the drivers, and had a DOS window that could
talk to the BBS.

It was pretty wild, in 1992 being able to redirect the screen/keyboard,
share printers and share drives on DOS boxes.

A little later I moved my desktop and the BBS to a single OS/2 desktop.
I didn't even notice that the BBS was running in the background.



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Re: Re: OS/2
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Utopian Galt on Wed Jun 11 2025 07:08 am

Its for DOS support. I could mess around with older software :)

It truly was a better DOS than DOS. It multitasked DOS windows smoothly, lots of free memory, and you could even create a virtual DOS environment with "real" DOS 6.22.

As in MS-DOS 6.22? As OS/2 was an IBM product, I thought it would be more equivalent to IBM's PC-DOS?

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Guess there's always Linux.

OS/2 AND LINUX GANG!!!!

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Co-Pilot is the reason why I am stopping my subscription to Microsoft Office. Will use Libre Office.

BASED!!!

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On 11 Jun 2025, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

Utopian Galt wrote to Nightfox <=-

Its for DOS support. I could mess around with older software :)

It truly was a better DOS than DOS. It multitasked DOS windows smoothly, lots of free memory, and you could even create a virtual DOS environment with "real" DOS 6.22.

Back in the 90s, I ran the BBS on DOS, ran OS/2 on my desktop, and used LANTastic networking. They didn't have an OS/2 client, so I created a
DOS VDM with MS-DOS and the drivers, and had a DOS window that could
talk to the BBS.

Yeah, it was pretty freaking cool at the time. There are even things about ArcaOS desktop that work pretty well. It ran the sh$t out of DOS, and was 32-Bit!

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Quoting Mary4 to Cougar428 <=-

Guess there's always Linux.

OS/2 AND LINUX GANG!!!!

I use Lubuntu on an older Dell laptop and it works great! No networking
issues on Linux like I had on OS/2.

Have a wonderful day!

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