My first not embedded OS! Actually not… It wasn’t the hipster “warp”… Boy i am old 😅
Never seen an OS/2 computer in the wild unfortunately. How similar was it to Windows?
1.3 wasn’t really great, although it was used by a number of embedded systems such as ATMs and the like. Version 2.0 was actually quite good. It could typically run DOS and Windows software in addition to native stuff. I got one of the Wing Commander games to run on it.
Sadly, there were basically no native applications, so there was no point in switching from Windows. So it never took off.
Hope the Internet Archive can back it up, I guess.
IA is quickly becoming a massive, risky single point of failure that is one bad lawsuit away from causing a major problem.
I want to hope they have an exit strategy, but I’m thinking we need to start providing alternatives. A single backup is no backup at all, and all that.
You mean a lawsuit like the one about the “Great 78 Project” by the music companies or maybe the one about the “National Emergency Library” by the book publishers?
I think you’re right that we need to start working on alternatives, hopefully something decentralized. The Wayback Machine would be an irreplaceable loss though if the data isn’t preserved somehow.
I started my computing career with OS/2 . I am downloading the full archive now and I hope to make it available on Mega by the end of the week.
I’ll try to set up a torrent seed while I am at it too.
EDIT: Here is the Mega link.
https://mega.nz/file/9xskkYQI#USRixlFLzyUVjURDxgR-p6lVogAZiHP3RdczFAYY3p8
It’s already on the Internet Archive:
If you post the magnet link I will put it on a seedbox and forget about it for a while ^^
Mega link in the meantime.
https://mega.nz/file/9xskkYQI#USRixlFLzyUVjURDxgR-p6lVogAZiHP3RdczFAYY3p8
