Subj : Renegade w/ OS/2 Warp 4
To   : niter3
From : j0hnny a1pha
Date : Fri Sep 27 2024 06:28 am

 >  ja>  > You paid for ArcaOS 5.1? 
 >  ja> 
 >  ja> I did. was pretty stoked when it came out. didn't renew though.
 > 
 > Besides RG, what sre you using it for and on what hardware?

Yeah, it was mostly BBS stuff -- I also have an instance of PCBOARD and
Iniquity running. And just the pure nostalgia is a trigger for me, I
worked at a job in the early 90's where i had to use OS/2 ocassionally and
I really liked it. 

Originally, I wanted to run a multi-node DOS-based BBS but didn't want to
run Windows or DOSBox + Linux, so OS/2 was fun to play around with. I
paid the $139 on impluse <yikes>.

I currently run ArcaOS on an old Thinkpad T43, and in virutalbox. I also
got Warp 4.5 running on that Thinkpad (with the help of a YouTube video,
kind of a pain). For running a BBS, it's 100% fine. Also had it running
on a more modern desktop PC build. It was a 'daily driver' for a hot
minute.

But at the end of the day, there's not much benefit (for me) to ArcaOS
unless you really need modern stuff like a browser or SMB server, or
support for modern hardware and larger screen resolutions. And it really
screams on modern hardware, multi-processor, etc. But I think there's also
a copy of eComStation on Internet Archive...  

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