Subj : Re: OS/2
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : j0hnny a1pha
Date : Thu Jun 12 2025 02:35:09

On 11 Jun 2025, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...
 
 pF> -=> Utopian Galt wrote to Nightfox <=-
 pF> 
 pF>  UG> Its for DOS support. I could mess around with older software :)
 pF> 
 pF> It truly was a better DOS than DOS. It multitasked DOS windows smoothly,
 pF> lots of free memory, and you could even create a virtual DOS environment
 pF> with "real" DOS 6.22.
 pF> 
 pF> Back in the 90s, I ran the BBS on DOS, ran OS/2 on my desktop, and used
 pF> LANTastic networking. They didn't have an OS/2 client, so I created a
 pF> DOS VDM with MS-DOS and the drivers, and had a DOS window that could
 pF> 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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