On 27 January 2016 at 07:18, Mark J. Blair <n...@nf6x.net> wrote: > That XDFCOPY.EXE from the BonusPak ISO also has the same issue under MS-DOS > 6.22 on the PS/2. However, I got an OS/2 prompt from the first two floppies > of the OS/2 Warp Connect 3.0 set (which are regular 1.44M floppies), and then > I can CD to the DOS 6.22 HD and use that XDFCOPY.EXE to write the images. Yay! > > This is like a text adventure.
:-D Yes, it is a bit, isn't it? I actually bought OS/2 with my own money. I was always extremely averse to doing that. It was good for its time, but NT 3.x was technically superior, just lacking in the UI department. Win95 brought a better UI. NT 4 combined them and Windows 2000 brought them together -- NT with Plug&play, power management etc. I don't like to have to say it, but Windows was better than OS/2. And Windows drove the rest of the industry onwards, to better it. Which, now, with Ubuntu and RHEL and Mac OS X and iOS and Android, it has, I reckon. Today there is eComStation. I have review copies but I've never got it 100% working. I may need to dedicate a machine to it. :¬( I miss OS/2, just as something genuinely /different/ in the greater DOS family -- but really, NT was better in almost every way. Less flexible by far, but also far more polished and stable. (E.g. I could reliably kernel-trap an OS/2 machine with Fractint, one of my favourite apps.) But trying the modern version today brings the bad memories flooding back, I'm afraid... Of multi-thousand-line CONFIG.SYS files, of juggling drivers (PATA versus SATA today, for example), of patchy or missing hardware support etc. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)
