Any comments? Yes. I have os/2 warp 4, and I loved it. As you say, it was stable, ran dos programs flawlessly, (and accessed them far faster than any Linux or windoz emulator) and appeared to run 32 bit software with less overhead than either windoz or linux. I see there is an edition of Mozilla ported to OS/2.
Alas, I cannot use it; it appears that all three of my local ISPs use MS-CHAP, and I cannot logon with either DOS or OS/2. None of the PPP drivers I've found for them can get past the %ascend% prompt. There seems to be some kind of planned obsolescence at work. None of the Linux distros prior to 7 will logon either... Mandrake, Suse, BSD, Slackware, Redhat, and Caldera all installed and booted the system, but wont logon. Redhat 8 will, and so will Corel and Xandros. All local servers are running win NT. It looks like Mickysloth is sending 'upgrades' deliberately designed to block Linux (and Mac!) users, but the distros have figured it out, and dont mind... it encourages us to buy new install CDs. And of course, forget DOS. However, all this makes me wonder if a DOS internet could not be formed using BBS software. Seems like with Long distance rates at a nickle a minute, I could drop my local ISP, and call in to a BBS host, download my mail for OFFLINE.EXE, and then upload my postings at my next logon with maybe a quarter a day in charges, or $7.50 per month. Has anyone tried this kind of thing to get here? In any case, as LD prices continue to fall, I can see a 24/7 plan (that includes data) could emerge so that we could use OS/2 and DOS to BBS with each other, and completely avoid the SPAM problems mentioned.
