OS/2? no clue where on the bloody earth to ask this here....

[ph4nt0m117]

is IBM OS/2 even in use anymore? I see it in WINDOWS XP once in a while, mentioned about drivers or something and its been nagging me all day on whether the damn thing exists anymore.

And, the more I think about it the more I wanna try using it. Is it worth it?

 

[MindoverMaster]

I don't know where you are getting that. OS/2 is a separate operating system from XP.

 

[tj_extreme]

Initial release	April 1987
Latest stable release	4.52 / December 2001

Google it. ^

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2

 

[ph4nt0m117]

That's why I said I didn't know where on the bloody earth to put the post.

 

[tj_extreme]

That's why I said I didn't know where on the bloody earth to put the post. Read much?

Yes, I read it. Look at the graph. You may be able to find it somewhere on the internet, but the last stable release was in late 2001, so technically it doesn't exist anymore.

 

[strollin]

eComStation is an OS that is currently supported that is OS/2 app compatible. OS/2 hasn't been supported by IBM in quite sometime so it's pretty outdated.

 

[KSoD]

OS/2 isnt worth trying and it would be hard pressed to get it working on any of today's machines. The OS itself hasnt been updated in over 11 years and as such there will be no support for Dual/Quad Core CPU's let alone any other hardware. At most you would be able to try it on an older Pentium machine.

 

[MindoverMaster]

Couldn't you run that on a VM, even?

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

OS/2 can be ran on most all VM's.... And most motherboards STILL offer OS/2 support in the BIOS, I assume it limits the system to OS/2 capable devices. No point in playing with OS/2 unless you work on ATM's, and older equipment.

 

[ph4nt0m117]

Fun fact - I have no new computers

Heck my stuff is so old, I would expect to be in posession of a NeXTstation sooner or later.

Also: sorry for being somewhat brash mindover_master, had a bad day D: