> Thomas Mueller composed on 2017-04-25 02:07 (UTC):
> > I ran Quattro Pro through 5 in OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 until that final OS/2 crash
> > in the single-digit days of April 2001.
> > OS/2 froze, did not dismount cleanly. On reboot, CHKDSK, run automatically,
> > ran amok and trashed my hard-disk data.
> OS/2 needed the upgrade to MCP that eCS incorporated, and Dani's 506, DASD and
> ATAPI drivers to run on hardware that wasn't perfectly sync'd up to that in
> the
> PC hardware IBM was selling, or even when it did.
> > I was never again able to boot OS/2 again even from installation or other
> > floppies: trap 000c or 000e.
> > OS/2 must have panicked at the state of the hard drive(s), while Linux
> > starter floppy booted, and Linux fdisk was runnable.
> I never liked the OS/2, Warp or eCS installers, though the CD versions were
> and
> are far less frustrating. I eventually found installation infrequently
> necessary. Once the SDD/Snap video drivers arrived, I found migrating a
> working
> disk or a clone thereof from one PC to another to be much easier. I stuck to
> always having OS/2 on an F: partition both before and after LVM came on the
> scene, only installing to any other letter on a test basis.
> > I used DR-DOS 7.03 for some years.
> > I can still run Quattro Pro 5 for DOS in FreeDOS, or FreeBSD, NetBSD or
> > Linux
> > with DOSBox.
> > Now I see how eComStation has greatly fallen behind, and FreeBSD and NetBSD
> > now seem to have much better hardware support than eComStation.
> > I can even rsync a FreeBSD or NetBSD installation to USB stick and make it
> > bootable. I don't think you can do that with eComStation.
> I keep several PCs competent to run the eCS version I use simply by
> transferring
> a HD with eCS on F: into it. I was never able to figure out how to make any of
> the non-OS/2 DOS emulators do SVGA text modes, required to produce the 132
> column text modes that make QPro so valuable to me.
> eCS works much better than DesqView and QEMM ever did with "large" file I/O,
> which is truly dismal in any DOS I ever seriously tried. And of course, eCS is
> useful for other things. QPro is one of those apps where the better DOS than
> DOS
> objective of OS/2 really shines.
> eCS has a replacement "Blue Lion" coming online soon. Final beta was supposed
> to
> happen today or yesterday:
> https://www.arcanoae.com/
> "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant
> words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
> Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!
> Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
I went to www.arcanoae.com, but some information was missing, such as GPT
support and 64-bit support.
It looks like any one of NetBSD, FreeBSD and Linux would do better, and easier
to get around in.
I had difficulties with the OS/2 installers. In the case of Warp 4, an Iomega
Zip drive showed with two different, consecutive letters, making it difficult
to find the proper drive letters.
I used 3D (.WQ2) with Quattro Pro. What if you have data for each month of the
year? Third dimension is 12 deep.
There is also open-source spreadsheet Teapot at
https://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/
Latest version is 2.3.0 (2012-02-06).
DOS and OS/2 FDISK led me to believe, erroneously, that a hard drive could have
only one primary partition, in addition to logical partitions.
Linux fdisk taught me better.
Tom
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