Are there orgs out there still running OS/2 ?
Our voicemail server is OS/2. :(
ArcaOS 5.0 now available: new OS/2 distribution
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#12Are there orgs out there still running OS/2 ?
The eComStation site lists some orgs who are using it - http://ecomstation.com/
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#13TIL that ALSA is available under LGPL (Uniaud, the sound-system in ArcaOS is ALSA based).
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#14The problem I have with these OS/2 "modernizing" projects is how the feature-set locks them out of 64-bit long mode. I think the only way to really try to revitalize OS/2 is to jump to 64-bit and seamlessly run 16-bit apps in a VM/emulator. But at that point you might as well just run OS/2 in a VM, which works really well even on free options like VirtualBox. So it seems like there is only a small and shrinking audience for a native 32-bit OS/2.
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#15I was reminded of this (http://techland.time.com/2012/04/02/25-years-of-ibms-os2-the...) when OS/2 turned 25 in 2012. So this year marks its 30th anniversary.
From page 3:
> In New York City’s subway system, for instance, the travelers who gain entrance by swiping their MetroCards over 5 million times each weekday do so with the assistance of IBM’s theoretically defunct software.
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#16Classic Mac OS seems to be the system from that era that's no longer available. There's still Amiga systems on the market. RISC OS is available for Raspberry Pi. DOS lives on in the form of FreeDOS. And now there are two OS/2 distributions (eComStation and ArcaOS).
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#17Classic Mac OS seems to be the system from that era that's no longer available. There's still Amiga systems on the market. RISC OS is available for Raspberry Pi. DOS lives on in the form of FreeDOS. And now there are two OS/2 distributions (eComStation and ArcaOS).
As someone who extensively used classic Mac OS, I really don't miss it though.
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#18So this is the same deal as with eCos, i.e. the provider doesn't have source access to the innards and just fiddles with some common drivers and desktop tools?
According to their About page https://www.arcanoae.com/about/ :
Arca Noae was founded in July, 2014 when several of the developers who previously worked on the eComStation project felt that the future for the platform looked bleak, a feeling which came about due to lack of progress (or any work being done at all), therefore demonstrating a distinct lack of commitment on the part of the project’s new owner.
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#19Do they actually have access to the source code? Or are they just sort of propping it up blindly and hoping the features they add hold together
Re: ArcaOS 5.0 now available: new OS/2 distribution
#20Classic Mac OS seems to be the system from that era that's no longer available. There's still Amiga systems on the market. RISC OS is available for Raspberry Pi. DOS lives on in the form of FreeDOS. And now there are two OS/2 distributions (eComStation and ArcaOS).
The fun thing is that OS/2 2.0 would have easily beat classic Mac OS if MS did not turn it into an entire fiasco.