Subj : Re: OS/2
To   : Utopian Galt
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Jun 11 2025 07:08:40

-=> Utopian Galt wrote to Nightfox <=-

 UG> 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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