Ugh. Find Warp (OS/2 v3 ) if you plan on playing with OS/2. It had more drivers included. If you find IBM Visualage software, you'll get C/C++ and with enough hunting - Smalltalk. I always wanted to play with that, but couldn't justify the $$$$ needed.
Todd Killingsworth On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Mark J. Blair <n...@nf6x.net> wrote: > > > On Jan 25, 2016, at 08:29, drlegendre . <drlegen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > If you're interested in a speed-up, I'm fairly sure a 486DX/2-66 should > > drop-in for the current 33mhz CPU, without any additional changes. > Doubles > > your core speed and adds the math co-processor in one go. > > Cool. I didn't know that it would drop in like that. > > I found images of OS/2 installation disks on a possibly dodgy > "abandonware" site. 2.0 installation crashed on the second disk. 2.1 made > it all the way through the 20th disk, then hung at "Updating the system > configuration" (but with mouse pointer still movable) and yielded a system > that doesn't boot past the loading screen. The system passes its diagnostic > tests, but maybe the scsi2sd is incompatible in some way, or maybe a > different distribution is needed for this machine? > > -- > Mark J. Blair, NF6X <n...@nf6x.net> > http://www.nf6x.net/ > >