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Windows 10 is on the way. So I spent the weekend installing and configuring OS/2. 🙂 Since OS/2 was recently released into the public domain, you can pick up copies of the install disk images from archive.org. As you work through the install, at some point you realize you need to convert or find out …
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After installing OS/2 Warp 4 I never did get round to installing the latest Fixpack15 or the updated gradd display driver. I’ve just been playing around with it this evening though and made some progress. First, the version I installed had a default UK keyboard layout which got in the way of trying to type …
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Why? My first job after graduating college was working as a contractor for IBM UK in the software support centre (Basingstoke, UK) supporting OS/2 and various other apps (Comms Manager/2, DB2/2, CICS OS/2). For a number of years I think I had a stack of OS/2 install diskettes in a box somewhere, but they got …
After many years of OS/2 quietly bumping along in the background unnoticed by the majority of the IT industry (“you mean IBM still sell OS/2?”), IBM have finally withdrawn OS/2 from the market although support will continue until the end of 2006. OS/2 in the early 90s was a major competitor to Windows 3.1, and …