OS/2, That's something I have plans to "reinstall" on my PS/2 9556 before too long. I'm trying to decide weather to crack open the shrinkwrapped copy of the original OS/2 2.0, use my usual OS/2 2.1 with Win OS/2 and Multimedia, or go with the image of OS/2 Warp 3 (or is it 4) that I have sitting on my hard drive taking up space, the latter meaning I'll have to find some sort of cable and an apropriate SCSI CD-ROM to work with.
I really like 2.1 Multimedia w/ Win OS/2. I'm surprised it did not do well, it has more productivity software out of the box, is customizable to a point that makes Windows 95 look weak in comparison, and can run Windows 3.1 programs as well as DOS programs with little or no trouble. Heck it's even pretty darn close to trouble free plug n' play compared to it's wannabe 32-bit Microsoft competitor. My only gripes are the following things with it.....
- I have to make very roughly 24 floppy diskette images. Apparently it does not recognize any "modern" SCSI or IDE CD-ROM drives, I have yet to see it do so. Put in the boot and then the install diskettes, and it cannot find the CD-ROM, so I almost always do a Disk Based install.
- And it almost always stops booting after sitting around for some odd months. I dunno what's going on, but if I don't run the computer with OS/2 on it for any extended period of time, it stops booting up OS/2 and throws 2 cryptic numerical error messages on screen.
Now if I can just find the network services for it, and a bridge to my ethernet network for my PS/2, I might use OS/2 more, but until then, it's pretty much useless for me as an O/S. Internet connectivity is a must, as is Networking.