Subj : OS/2 and such
To   : Exodus
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Mar 24 2025 09:25 am

  Re: Re: Micronet...
  By: Exodus to Fusion on Sun Mar 23 2025 10:20 pm

 Ex> ArcaOS yeah, it's cool, but OS/2 is dead.  I ran it for YEARS in the 90s.
 Ex> It's hard to run anything under it now as it's not "current" to run
 Ex> anything on.  Not saying OS/2 was a treat back in the day either, but it
 Ex> was fun times then. ;)

I mainly used DOS and Windows in the 90s, but I dual-booted with OS/2 for a little bit, and I think OS/2 was a really good OS.  And I thought there was some really cool stuff developed for OS/2 - One was the SIO serial driver from Ray Gwinn, which could create a virtual serial port to route the data on the internet. I looked into how to enable telnetting to my DOS-based BBS that way, and it worked, which I thought was pretty cool.  I didn't have my BBS set up that way permanently though.

Nightfox
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