Subj : Re: OS/2
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Jun 12 2025 08:39:15

  Re: Re: OS/2
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Thu Jun 12 2025 07:50 am

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

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

Ah, that's cool.  I used OS/2 a bit but didn't play with the DOS VM stuff that in-depth.  I did try running my original DOS BBS (using RemoteAccess) in OS/2. I had downloaded Ray Gwynn's serial telnet driver for OS/2 and was able to telnet to my RemoteAccess BBS.  I was only experimenting with that though and still only had that BBS set up for dialup. 

Nightfox
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