Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 4th Dec 2001 17:47 UTC
IBM's OS/2 has a great history as a workstation operating system, it was a major alternative OS in the '90s. At its peak time in the mid-'90s OS/2 had about 2 million users but the Windows NT and Windows 95 releases broke its further development. This year Serenity Systems has released a new client version of OS/2. This article will introduce you to what OS/2 is all about. You will learn its history, its user interface, and its power under the hood. The article is also accompanied by a number of screenshots.
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Eugenia!,
Thanks for a fine write up.
I collect pc boxes/servers- mostly a motley crowd of Pentium 1and II's/Pentium Pro's/AMD K5/6'S/III's that are "sent to pasture", and also run the newest pc hardware on self-assembled boxes (AthlonXP to Pentium 4's) and test many kinds of OS's that can be bought off the shelf now. I must say that I found eCs runs fine in everyone of them and this speaks volumes for a kernel designed light years ago (albeit quietly brought abreast of times). My point is:- Aged OS this isnt.
Try that with some other "new" OS's and you'll see they arent adapatable to older pc hardware. This eCs/OS2 thing possesses
a versatility that defies belief. If you play with OS's on different hardware on an almost daily basis you get 1st hand knowledge
of the average, the better and the cream - and eCS is one of the very few os's which falls into that creme de la creme category.
Besides installation went like a breeze (partly because if you play with OS's all the time you develop a knack that allows one to install anything with few or no problems