26 May
2000
26 May
'00
7:07 p.m.
In a message dated 5/26/00 11:26:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
allisonp(a)world.std.com writes:
As I happen to have an IBM OS/2 warp V3 kit with bonus
pak it makes me
want to play again with it. I did in the last outing try installing it and
it went well
but I found the interface feeling a bit strange. It sounds like it has
attributes
that would make it ideal for smaller 486s and any 386s with enough ram
but unlike some that want Multimedia I'd want IP (eithernet) networking.
i love os/2's WPS! if i could find a os/2 type shell for linux, i'd switch in
a minute. if you want networking, go get warp connect. i've been told that
it's been tweaked a little after warp 3.0 came out. i have it running on a
PS/2 server 95 with 48meg with scsi and i get full multimedia and can connect
to my isp and my other machines. if DSL ever gets around here, i will use it
to host my site.
DB Young Team OS/2
hurry, hurry, step right up! see the computers you used as a kid!
http://members.aol.com/suprdave/classiccmp/museum.htm
28 May
28 May
12:26 a.m.
i love os/2's WPS! if i could find a os/2 type
shell for linux, i'd switch in
a minute. if you want networking, go get warp connect. i've been told that
it's been tweaked a little after warp 3.0 came out. i have it running on a
PS/2 server 95 with 48meg with scsi and i get full multimedia and can connect
to my isp and my other machines. if DSL ever gets around here, i will use it
to host my site.
DB Young Team OS/2
hurry, hurry, step right up! see the computers you used as a kid!
http://members.aol.com/suprdave/classiccmp/museum.htm
If you like Warp Connect -- you should see Warp4.
Actually, there is a way to get Warp doing ethernet running from the
Warp3 kit plus some fixpacks for network software to get the ndis hooks
and missing pieces -- since the IP stack is already there -- but the
MPTN and LAN stuff isn't.
I think the info is up on hobbes. I bought Warp4 and stuff... but I
don't think I'm tossing IBM any more money for the final client packages
if they're not going to continue to support it past Dec.
I would've bought Warp 5 with the new IP stack and the Logical Volume
Manager if they would have made it available in a client edition at a
reasonable price.
Hard to believe they couldn't make money off it like MS's Win98 Second
Edition. The code's already done for Warp Server. They probably just
don't want to allocate the resources for packaging it.
Bill
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6:58 a.m.
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 05:26:29AM -0400, Bill Pechter wrote:
I think the info is up on hobbes. I bought Warp4 and
stuff... but I
don't think I'm tossing IBM any more money for the final client packages
if they're not going to continue to support it past Dec.
IBM really seems to have an attitude this time around. A customer of mine
that was thinking of switching to OS/2 got a variety of stories from IBM,
but the one thing they really pushed was their "Total Content Ownership"
(???) scam. The way that works is, you get whatever version is shipping right
now, and they freeze it. Then you pay through the nose for support, *forever*,
and they say they'll fix whatever bugs crop up in that version only, just
for you. If they release new versions in the mean time, you don't get 'em,
and you don't *ever* get any feature upgrades, just fixes for bugs you find
yourself. I can't imagine how they thought customers would like this idea!!!
I would've bought Warp 5 with the new IP stack and
the Logical Volume
Manager if they would have made it available in a client edition at a
reasonable price.
The LVM is EEEEEEEVIL!!!! I really don't like it, the "sticky" drive
letter
assignments are particularly annoying if you're swapping disks around (our
boxes have hot-swappable disks, obviously we don't expect the hot-swapping to
work, but we were moving drives a lot between boots to copy big files around,
and LVM really mixes things up when you do that). And the LVM is the only
thing that knows how to read its own partition table, so it's easy for it to
get out of sync with the normal FDISK partitions if you have other OSes around.
We couldn't figure out what advantage the LVM was supposed to be giving us,
it was just one more configuration headache.
John Wilson
D Bit
7:54 a.m.
New subject: Digital CompacTape cartridge
While at TRW, I ran across this Digital CompacTape cartridge for $1.00 and
picked it up. I have no way to check it out but the case looks like it
wasn't abused. Anyone interested for $1.00 + $3.20 Priority Mail shipping?
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