[HN Gopher] Slovenian OS/2 Warp 4
___________________________________________________________________
Slovenian OS/2 Warp 4
Author : ingve
Score : 64 points
Date : 2022-09-11 14:21 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.os2museum.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.os2museum.com)
| shimonabi wrote:
| When I first got an internet dial-up connection in Slovenia with
| Siol, there was an instruction manual included in the welcome
| package of how to set it up in OS/2. That's the only time I ever
| saw a screenshot of that system. I don't know if it was in
| English or Slovenian.
| wdb wrote:
| This was a great operating system. Started my CompuServe (GO
| MAXIS) and Internet journey on it.
| fanatic2pope wrote:
| I worked at IBM for a while in the 90's and I vaguely remember
| an email chain going around asking for interested parties to
| comment on the idea of open sourcing parts of OS/2. I responded
| enthusiastically, but I think the only thing that made it out
| was the JFS file system.
| mike_hock wrote:
| The journaling file system file system?
| HeckFeck wrote:
| Yeah it was a file system that could host itself, very
| advanced
| Lammy wrote:
| I didn't see this detail mentioned in the post, but it's likely
| that the single FixPak containing winfile-dot-exe is the Y2K
| patch:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20000819031153/http://support.mi...
| markostamcar wrote:
| Needless to say, any reader with original Slovenian OS/2 Warp 4
| media should contact the OS/2 Museum and/or the Slovenian
| Computer Museum. Thanks! :)
| twooclock wrote:
| I was a member of Slovenian TVT (transaltion verification team)
| working in Rochester NC in summer 95(?). I should still have
| some related materials and some great stories about working
| there! Will contact you tomorrow!
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2022-09-11 23:01 UTC)