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I was an OS/2 evangelist among my university friends. We would install and try to run the DOS games and it worked flawlessly, and I even run a BBS on it, on 199
by emersonrsantos 5y ago
I was an OS/2 evangelist among my university friends. We would install and try to run the DOS games and it worked flawlessly, and I even run a BBS on it, on 1995.
Unfortunately, we've all migrated to NT 4.0 as it did the same things but it has better hardware support because of drivers.
Since then, it was a painful decline and I believe the only production system running OS/2 nowadays are IBM mainframe consoles, as IBM migrated away desktop enterprise machines to Linux.
- protomyth 5y agoUnfortunately, we've all migrated to NT 4.0 as it did the same things but it has better hardware support because of drivers. I got a free copy of NT because of IBM's lame device support [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6792616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6792616 ]. To this day, I still do not get why they wanted me to sign an NDA to get the S3 driver.
- zozbot234 5y agoArcaOS is still providing "production use" support for OS/2, and AIUI they've added a few more features as well.
- the-dude 5y agoThere must be some ATMs left.
- moonbug 5y agothey're all running Windows xp now