Subj : Still using OS/2?
To   : Jean-Claude Dumas
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Jul 29 2015 05:18 am


28 Jul 15 19:30, you wrote to All:

 JD> Out of curiosity, anyone still using OS/2 for... anything?

absolutely! my entire main server still runs OS/2... up until a year or two 
ago, it was running on Warp 3 Connect but now it is on eCS...

 JD> This BBS runs the DOS version of Maximus on OS/2, on a Pentium, on my
 JD> floor. I still like the OS, as useless as it might have become. :)

my original frontdoor/fastecho/remoteaccess multinode system is one of the jobs 
that my main server has... along with apache, ftpserv, weasel for web, ftp and 
email... there's also binkd, a jamnntpd server and at least 10 AI controllers 
for my tradewars 2000 v3 gold games ;)

as for "useless" that depends on what one wants or needs to do... as a 
multitasking OS it works very well for native OS/2 apps and DOS apps... 
browsing the internet and stuff like that? i'd rather use another system simply 
because of the possible dangers one might run into... i'd rather reload a 
workstation than a server, ya know? ;)

)\/(ark

.... I'm too sexy for this conference...
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