7 Oct
2005
7 Oct
'05
5:15 p.m.
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 17:50:25 -0400
"Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
I was wondering since IBM produced OS/2 did any of
their machines
(PS/2 series maybe) run OS/2 better then clones or other companies
machines. I have OS/2 1.1 Extended up to 4.0 in my collection and was
thinking of getting a dedicated machine to test them out on. Since I
have used Warp before I was thinking about trying the older versions
like 2.1.
Any ideas?
A few years back I worked at a Medical Device manufacturer who developed
an embedded product using OS/2. So there was a whole team of OS/2
developers. This was actually one of the last large outside-IBM
embedded OS/2 shops, in fact. It was later (the OS/2 Warp era) but
there was not a single Microchannel machine in sight. Lots of IBM
machines from the post PS/2 era, though.
I have an IBM PC Server 704 (a big file cabinet sized quad pentium pro
behemoth) and there's OS/2 drvier support for it. My recommendation is
to tailor your hardware choice to systems that have good driver support
in OS/2.
I wouldn't mind running my PC Server 704 as an OS/2 Warp Server, but I
don't have any idea where to track down Warp Server installation media.
It's a dandy machine running NetBSD 2.0 at present.