Nostalgia not what it used to be

[vetran]

OS/2 Warp Server ??

You are still using a strain of OS/2 today if you use modern windows.

OS/2 - Wikipedia

First time I saw OS/2 it was obviously the future, OS/3 which was based on an illicit night of passion with VMS and became NT.

Thing that made the difference was NT 3.51 was much cheaper than OS/2 or Netware. One could have a server (normally a workstation with go faster stripes not a real sever that came later) that ran pretty well as a workstation for a few hundred quid. Combine that with M$ getting in bed with Dell & HP for drivers it was a no brainer. No hunting for the right premium card to run under OS/2 or Netware.

[TestMangler]

You are still using a strain of OS/2 today if you use modern windows.

OS/2 - Wikipedia

First time I saw OS/2 it was obviously the future, OS/3 which was based on an illicit night of passion with VMS and became NT.

Thing that made the difference was NT 3.51 was much cheaper than OS/2 or Netware. One could have a server (normally a workstation with go faster stripes not a real sever that came later) that ran pretty well as a workstation for a few hundred quid. Combine that with M$ getting in bed with Dell & HP for drivers it was a no brainer. No hunting for the right premium card to run under OS/2 or Netware.

In the early to mid 90's I was one of the few people daft enough to be certified in OS/2 and later, Warp. Might seem laughable now, but it was out there in every bank and insurance co in the country (at least on the server side and often on the desktop) so was a constant and easy source of contracts and simple to find work. Until NT4 pushed it out of the market, I never looked for jobs. They came to me :-) You could get a lot of short term, high money, good rates and full expenses, just for installations and server configs. I loved the OS/2 days :-)

[BR14]

In the early to mid 90's I was one of the few people daft enough to be certified in OS/2 and later, Warp. Might seem laughable now, but it was out there in every bank and insurance co in the country (at least on the server side and often on the desktop) so was a constant and easy source of contracts and simple to find work. Until NT4 pushed it out of the market, I never looked for jobs. They came to me :-) You could get a lot of short term, high money, good rates and full expenses, just for installations and server configs. I loved the OS/2 days :-)

i liked it for running multiple 3270 terminals in one box.

[TestMangler]

i liked it for running multiple 3270 terminals in one box.

I hope you were using ELEP2 for that and not some crappy 16 bit Windows equivalent running in compatibility

[BR14]

I hope you were using ELEP2 for that and not some crappy 16 bit Windows equivalent running in compatibility

can't remember, really.
i think it was a Goal systems product.
i replaced a wall of operator screens with four or five workstations with it though.
and was exceedingly well recompensed for it.

3270 emulation doesn't need much processor power anyway, it just gets you into the Real computer(s).

[TestMangler]

can't remember, really.
i think it was a Goal systems product.
i replaced a wall of operator screens with four or five workstations with it though.
and was exceedingly well recompensed for it.

3270 emulation doesn't need much processor power anyway, it just gets you into the Real computer(s).

Aye, but could you burn pirate software cds on them :-)

[BR14]

Aye, but could you burn pirate software cds on them :-)

naw, ye couldnae.
fairy nuff.

[clearedforlanding]

I miss getting paid around 40 pounds per floppy disk I inserted as soon as the nlms started installing. The server room was a highly paid youth club.

Netware 3.12, I still dream about you.

[darmstadt]

I occasionally bring up OS/2 as a VM for nostalgic reasons plus I quite like using it. There were calls to opensource a while ago but as IBM were still using in some products, i.e. the HMC which are now Linux it instead went here: ArcaOS 5.0 from Arca Noae is the new release of OS/2 for the 21st century

[BR14]

I occasionally bring up OS/2 as a VM for nostalgic reasons plus I quite like using it. There were calls to opensource a while ago but as IBM were still using in some products, i.e. the HMC which are now Linux it instead went here: ArcaOS 5.0 from Arca Noae is the new release of OS/2 for the 21st century

the HMC has a web GUI now, too.
scary
cheers for that link,might have a play.