I just spent an inordinate amount of time debugging a VM running OS/2 Warp Server Advanced SMP (WSA SMP). The VM was working fine (except for sometimes hanging very early during boot, a known issue with the SMP kernel), but … Continue reading →| OS/2 Museum
The previously mentioned warez dump on archive.org contains a lot of little gems that would have been otherwise lost. One of those might be 3Com’s networking package from 1989, the 3+Open LAN Manager version 1.1. The software was released in … Continue reading →| OS/2 Museum
Attempting to install Microsoft OS/2 1.21 will fail on many systems with the following scary looking error: Pressing Enter as directed shows the following more detailed error message: The initial boot phase, as well as the installation stage immediately before … Continue reading →| OS/2 Museum
by Vaughn Vernon from the December 1987 issue of Computer Language OS/2, Microsoft’s latest addition to its operating system line, could well become the operating system of the next decade for Intel 80286/80386 microcomputers. Its multitasking capabilities, full-featured application programming interface (API), and extendability to future hardware almost guarantee its success. Microsoft sees microcomputing as a platform for office automation hardware and software: The office of the future (...| GitPius
Recently the opensource.com editors made an open call for people to submit their own “open source story.” I thought it would be a fun trip down memory lane, so I put a draft together an…| Integrated Code