Subj : Re: ArcaOS 5.0 - the "new" OS/2 Warp. Anyone used?
To   : esc
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Feb 24 2023 06:29:00

-=> esc wrote to Oldbieone <=-

 es> I purchased a license and installed it on a Minisforum mini fanless PC
 es> (one of those cheap-o Chinese import things with crappy performance -
 es> https://www.minisforum.com/front/product/intel ). Honestly it runs fast
 es> and everything appears to work, I don't really have any noticeable
 es> issues.

 Minimum requirements are a K6 with 512mb of RAM, an Atom CPU would be
 overkill.

I wonder why it needs so much RAM compared with OS/2. I ran my BBS under
OS/2 Warp 3 on a 486 with 24 mb of RAM and was surprised at its
multitasking. My work box was similarly spec'ed.

 Thing is, I never used OS/2 back in the day and don't really
 es> know what I should do with it now :P

Presentation Manager, the window manager portion of OS/2 was "object
oriented", meaning you could click on anything and get a context menu.
Windows didn't do that back then, and it's something that later versions
of Windows emulated.

You could do things like drop a document onto a printer icon to print it
out, without figuring which app to open up, selecting the print menu,
etc.


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