Subj : Re: BBSing on CP/M
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : acn
Date : Fri Sep 24 2021 16:35:00

Am 22.09.21 schrieb poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 in FSX_RETRO:

Hallo poindexter,

ph>> Back in the day there was a version of OS/2 Warp that was hacked to
ph>> remove the GUI and you were left with a 3-disk installer of just the
ph>> CLI. It was like having DOS 5 (or maybe 6?) without the 640k RAM
ph>> barrier. It ran absolutely great, but it didn't have emm386.sys so
ph>> anything that specifically checked for that didn't run. I'd really like
ph>> to find a copy of that again.

pF> Are you sure that wasn't OS/2 1.2?  :)

;-)

Just to add something here:
There was(is) a program called BOOTOS2, written by an IBM employee,  
which could create bootable floppies for OS/2.

And using this tool, it worked with only 2 floppies (instead of 3).
I've used it back in the day to create boot floppies which also  
contained the driver for my parallel port Zip drive, where I stored my  
OS/2 backup on.
(Creating a working backup was easy back then: I did it with RAR,  
which understood and (re)stored the extended attributes and long  
filenames on HPFS)

Regards,
Anna

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