Subj : the woes and whims of winXX
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu Dec 05 2019 04:07 am

In a post between "Kurt Weiske : August Abolins", on 12/4/2019 9:08 AM

 KW> I *loved* OS/2 for being able to run old Windows 3.1 apps
 KW> and run virtual dos machines with real DOS. I ran OS/2 on my
 KW> desktop, ran the BBS under DOS, and used LANTastic, an old
 KW> peer-to-peer network, between the BBS and a DOS window using
 KW> MS-DOS (since LANTastic didn't make an OS/2 version...)

My bbs system was hosted on OS/2 2.1. It was only a 386/pc.  Ran smooth
as butter. When Warp3 came along I set up a new pc for my mom with it
and the Win version of Quickbooks, DOS Worperfect and a few other Win
and DOS programs she was already accustomed to, and set it up with FD/2
and point software to call my bbs. Then, the idea was to configure
another new pc with Warp3 and migrate the bbs to it.

But, as my luck would have it, the hdd on the OS2 2.1 machine failed at
the most inconvenient time.  I closed the bbs and stayed with the
original WinME on the "new" replacement machine. WinME wasn't too bad
actually. I was able to max it out to 1GB ram over the next few years.
My main interest at that time was internet browsing and producing CD
copies and MP3 discs. WinME seemed to handle that quite nicely.

In the meantime, a friend who heard about my bbs predicament sent me his
Warp Connect V3.  By then, I was already accustomed to WinME and the
accumulated win programs and never bothered with Warp Connect.  I did
not have the space and resources to have a "spare" pc to play with it
anyway.  I still have the Warp Connect.  I see listings on ebay at about
$100 for it.

OMG.. I just looked and I still have an unopened box of Lotus Smartsuite
for OS/2 (Retail $30).  I also have a Jumbo250 internal bay tape drive
and a pile of sealed QIC-80 tapes!


 KW> It wasn't a better Windows than Windows, but it was a much
 KW> better DOS than DOS.

Ya.  I used the Win-OS2 part sparingly, weening off Win programs as I
found suitable native OS/2 equivalents.

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