why did anyone ever use OS/2

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hbag: Feb 13, 2021

poo poo now im thinking about all those floppies i left in the laptop bag and forgot about when the guy asked for the laptop back. if i left the EGAtrek demo disk in there im going to be pissed

# ? Aug 15, 2023 23:37

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# ? Apr 30, 2024 00:09

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

jony neuemonic posted:

i would like to use the laptop with the thickness of a phone book (unironically)

if i rebuilt the battery it'd be as good as the day it was built. i have a vaio of the same vintage and it's a hell of a lot thinner

doesn't run os/2 though

# ? Aug 15, 2023 23:48

Best Bi Geek Squid: Mar 25, 2016

hbag posted:

poo poo now im thinking about all those floppies i left in the laptop bag and forgot about when the guy asked for the laptop back. if i left the EGAtrek demo disk in there im going to be pissed

just so long as you don�t copy that floppy

# ? Aug 16, 2023 00:01

Feisty-Cadaver: Jun 1, 2000; The worms crawl in,
The worms crawl out.

my dad had a still shrinkwrapped copy of os/2 warp on the shelf in our home office and to this day i have no idea why. i assume he took it from work? our first computer was a 512k mac and it's been macs ever since so

# ? Aug 16, 2023 03:24

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

to remind him of the road not taken

# ? Aug 16, 2023 03:27

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

same reason I keep a framed hair trimmer on the wall, to remind me and also to let everyone who visits know that I will never shave my pubes

# ? Aug 16, 2023 03:42

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

I have never seen a bigger self ownage on this site as the op�s post.

# ? Aug 16, 2023 04:27

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

to answer the question though, nobody used OS/2. it was a massive failure.

# ? Aug 16, 2023 04:28

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

The Management posted:

to answer the question though, nobody used OS/2. it was a massive failure.

don�t sign your posts

# ? Aug 16, 2023 04:29

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

The Management posted:

to answer the question though, nobody used OS/2. it was a massive failure.

i saw some atms still running os/2 in the 2010s

# ? Aug 16, 2023 04:34

polyester concept: Mar 29, 2017

The Management posted:

I have never seen a bigger self ownage on this site as the op�s post.

it's almost as if the op had no idea his OS was a POS

# ? Aug 16, 2023 15:56

Zlodo: Nov 25, 2006

SRQ posted:

okay so I like dicking around with old computers, bit of a hobby. I actually make money off it.

On and off I've tried to use OS/2 because people apparently liked it in the 1990s. My experiences thus far:
- Unable to boot on a Pentium 60 due to the video card not working right. Unable to ever fix. This hardware was absolutely on the shelves at the time and this was never fixed.
- Unable to install on various hard drives because they were just TOO DANG BIG. How the gently caress you manage to balls this up so bad that within years of your OS release you can't actually install it on anything I don't even know. Mac and Windows* don't have this problem so it's not like it was some sort of secret mythical magic.
- Unable to install the video card drivers for a 1997 system because they are bugged, despite using the newest 2001 release, which inexplicably does not come with drivers.
- Unable to get the sound card on the same system to work because, again, inexplicably it lacks built in ones. Installing the OEM ones is a dumb PITA and I hate it.
- Neither the video card nor sound card drivers are recognized by the system driver installer app, and both have their own weirdo bespoke installer systems.
- lmfao it uses literal config.sys
- which you cannot edit from the terminal
- Unable to get CD drives to work with various attempts because for some reason it has no generic ATAPI driver. Despite, again, that a driver existed for DOS that's super easy to use so what the gently caress IBM.

Let alone the fact it's just a cluttered and lovely mess to actually use with a UI designed by the same team in charge of fighter jet cockpits. It's trash hell garbage even compared to how awful everything was in the era and I cannot fathom why anyone would choose this over Mac or windows. Installing Red Hat 6 was literally easier and more user friendly.

was everyone just stupid and/or drunk in the 1990s why was this acceptable and beyond that desirable.

this os is a pos

*NT-old does but I suspect that's entirely because it shared the OS2 team early on and they suck.

didn't read

whatever happened to OS/1 anyway?

# ? Aug 16, 2023 16:02

Dijkstracula: Mar 18, 2003; You can't spell 'vector field' without me, Professor!

Zlodo posted:

whatever happened to OS/1 anyway?

it was a POS because OS/1 didn't support PS/2 keyboards

# ? Aug 16, 2023 19:02

post hole digger: Mar 21, 2011

upgrade to os/3 op

# ? Aug 16, 2023 19:24

hbag: Feb 13, 2021

my uncle works at IBM and got me OS/4

# ? Aug 16, 2023 19:25

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

OS/5 was banned in japan because it had an icon of a gun and a kid shot his sister

# ? Aug 16, 2023 19:49

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

I�m already on os/13, op.

# ? Aug 16, 2023 19:59

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

I don�t even have an OS :smugmrgw:

# ? Aug 16, 2023 22:27

DJ Commie: Feb 29, 2004; Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

echinopsis posted:

I don’t even have an OS

just pure pos then?

# ? Aug 17, 2023 00:10

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

# ? Aug 17, 2023 00:39

Dijkstracula: Mar 18, 2003; You can't spell 'vector field' without me, Professor!

echi does his posting from real mode, no INT 19h raised

# ? Aug 17, 2023 03:07

George: Nov 27, 2004; No love for your made-up things.

im just whistling into a payphone, op

# ? Aug 17, 2023 05:27

git apologist: Jun 4, 2003

when i was 11 or so my mum took me to her friend from work�s place. the friends son was �good with computers� and knew how to program which was mind blowing to us. he showed me what a variable was and then we played tyrian or something. he had a 486 DX with os/2. that�s my os/2 story

# ? Aug 17, 2023 15:14

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

tyrian kicked rear end

# ? Aug 17, 2023 17:07

George: Nov 27, 2004; No love for your made-up things.

gently caress yeah Tyrian.

# ? Aug 17, 2023 20:37

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

Captain Foo posted:

tyrian kicked rear end

that guy was in diablo 2, right

# ? Aug 17, 2023 20:40

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

graph posted:

that guy was in diablo 2, right

lol

# ? Aug 18, 2023 03:49

Crazy Achmed: Mar 13, 2001

i was just thinking about Tyrian today. i wonder if anyone's made a mod to rebalance the weapons.

come to think of it, maybe armored core will scratch the itch for blowing things up for 5 minutes and then spending ages buying new upgrades and tinkering about with my death machine

# ? Aug 19, 2023 09:41

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Crazy Achmed posted:

i was just thinking about Tyrian today. i wonder if anyone's made a mod to rebalance the weapons.

come to think of it, maybe armored core will scratch the itch for blowing things up for 5 minutes and then spending ages buying new upgrades and tinkering about with my death machine

i think that�s the fundamental value proposition for armored core, yeah

# ? Aug 19, 2023 15:22

polyester concept: Mar 29, 2017

highfleet might also do well for that

# ? Aug 19, 2023 15:29

WilWheaton: Oct 11, 2006; It'd be hard to get bored on this ship!

jony neuemonic posted:

i would like to use the laptop with the thickness of a phone book (unironically)

I don't know why we don't see more vintage thinkpad 560 lines around, they're actually relatively thin -- almost to modern standards , but built in the mid 90s

# ? Aug 19, 2023 19:08