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I remember 386 support connected with 1.3, but probably still using descriptors. NSFT was still involved at 2.0 time, though DOS+Windows was pretty obviously g
by markhahn 4y ago
I remember 386 support connected with 1.3, but probably still using descriptors.
NSFT was still involved at 2.0 time, though DOS+Windows was pretty obviously going to win, so to speak, and NT OS/2 was still hush-hush. NT OS/2 ran on ia32, mips, alpha, and i860 (wow, freaky to remember that!) at the time - the "new technology" was as much the racy idea of portable OS code as RISC and microkernels...
- chasil 4y agoCutler's design was VMS written in (portable) C. (The VMS kernel was written in assembler.) VMS has great strengths, but hard file locks on OS components require downtime for patching. Cutler didn't foresee the avalanche of updates, and the availability collapse of "patch Tuesday." POSIX opportunistic locking was a great gift to his competition.
- lproven 4y agoHPFS386 was a faster, 32-bit version of the HPFS driver, included with 1.3 and later in its server editions. http://www.edm2.com/index.php/HPFS386.IFS http://www.edm2.com/index.php/HPFS386.IFS That's the only 386 code in OS/2 1.x that I know of.