Subj : Re: OS/2
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Jun 12 2025 07:50:59

-=> Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 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.

 Ni> As in MS-DOS 6.22?  As OS/2 was an IBM product, I thought it would be
 Ni> more equivalent to IBM's PC-DOS?

With OS/2, you could create virtual DOS machines, akin to a virtual
machine nowadays. They would create a virtual machine, booting from a
DOS image, and inside that window you'd be running DOS natively, with
the ability to have separate config.sys and autoexec.bat files. from a disk
image created from a DOS boot disk, and have an environment that was
100% DOS. The "Better DOS than DOS", if you will.

You could boot any DOS that way, if you needed a specific brand or
version of DOS. The DOS prompt in OS/2 was pretty good, I gotta say -
the only time I preferred it was when I had an application that needed
DOS-only drivers.

Damn, now I want to run OS/2 again...


 
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