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Dancer (put your advert here) Started conversation Nov 13, 2001
OS2 was (is?) an operating system by IBM that was ran over by mirosoft's WFW (3.11 i think). It was a real good operating system with a nice interface, great communication and networking software (for the time it lived at) and REAL multithreading - that was hard to find at the time.
OS2 WARP was great but it failed in the attempt to compete against the M$ marketing devision 
and M$ pulled some stunts both IBM and the general market fell for.
***What did you program for OS2? Is it still alive somewhere?***
All I did for OS2 is long gone, as it was a communication protocol implementation for BBSes and a message board for BBSes... both OS2 and BBSes are dead...
May they rest in peace,
Yours, 
Dancer
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Nov 13, 2001
Sorry for forgetting the subject 
stupid stupid stupid *hits head*
Dancer
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Nov 14, 2001
don't worry we all forget things.... 
all well, I've looked into OS2 but would much prefere to stick with Linux and Win98SE, and as for the Mac OS I don't think much of that ether orthough that just maby the programmer in me speaking.
good to see you after a short break
-- DoctorMO --
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Hobbes - Keeper of Himself to Himself,(scout) Posted Nov 16, 2001
Ah OS2, now that takes me back. I used OS2 when it was the underlying operating system for the fledgling Microsoft Network operating system Lan Manager.
It came on 44 disks and took about six hours to install.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Nov 17, 2001
As mentioned elsewhere, I have a big box of floppies and a manual, labelled "OS/2 Warp"... I haven't used them...
I made quite a lucrative career for myself about 5 years ago as one of the "elite few" who could remove the OS/2 Warp from Escom PCs without disabling the Windows for Workgroups... (It did involve an "upgrade install" of DR DOS v6... ) Each uninstall earned me a meal and a few beers!
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Nov 19, 2001
well the way to go, learn an elit skill,
*Goes away to write that one down for later*
Thanks
-- DoctorMO --
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- 1: Dancer (put your advert here) (Nov 13, 2001)
- 2: Dancer (put your advert here) (Nov 13, 2001)
- 3: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (Nov 14, 2001)
- 4: Hobbes - Keeper of Himself to Himself,(scout) (Nov 16, 2001)
- 5: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Nov 17, 2001)
- 6: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (Nov 19, 2001)
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