7 Oct
2005
7 Oct
'05
3:18 p.m.
Teo Zenios 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?
I know that they used OS/2 as on the PS/2's that were microcode support
machines for
their S/390 machines, and probably still do. I believe that many of
those machines now
have thinkpad console support laptops as well.
A bit off topic, but as to compatability, the basic stuff in an PS/2 is
not very far from
the basics, and I am not aware of any problems with the basic boxes.
You will run into
problems getting drivers for OS/2 when you start adding tape drives,
external floppies,
scsi external, and so forth, as you will with any older box.
IBM shut down its PC support site some time ago, and I don't know where
you can
go for anything old anymore. I doubt that even the annoying pseudo porn
sites like
device-drivers.com or whatever would have much in the way of OS/2 support
though that site and it's clones are just repositories of pointers and
generators of
annoying ad pop ups (hence my tagging them as pseudo porn for the unkillable
popup behaviour)
jim