HP van BraamA nice #retrocomputing #thrift find! A (slightly water damaged) copy of #os2warp 3!
It's a little water damaged (what happened to you!) but still fun!
Wintermute_BBS@hp the water damage comes from the tears the previous owner cried when he had to shelve OS/2 in favour of Windows XP ... 😋
@Wintermute_BBS It's the only plausible explanation.
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi@hp Curious, I've never seen the Dutch version before. IBM did localise OS/2 for even for some fringe languages, like Finnish, which was unexpected at the time, not that anyone would use it.
@apzpins But the box said it is the most popular 32bit operating system!
@hp We all have fever dreams.
But it wouldn't been the worst one.
@apzpins I guess at the time the alternatives were DOS and Windows 3, so I guess it pretty much meant that OS/2 was the ONLY 32bit OS for PC's.
So I think it might've been true. Just like, true by default.
@hp You might be onto something. OS/2 2.0 was the first 32bit version and it came out in '92, so even when Linux did exist, it was pretty fringe thing at the time. Even when I jumped onto the Linux ship in '94, it was still pretty rare compared to OS/2 being in a lot of point of sales things and medical systems.
Last time I had a MRI taken, the system seemed to be Redhat based.
@apzpins Yeah, this version is from 1994, Linux was a thing then for sure. But I think it is fair to say that at the time probably more people were using OS/2 than Linux.
@hp Yeah, although the numbers didn't come from home users, very few non-technical people were even aware of it. DOS 6.x + Win 3.x was pretty much the only option those days. When the Windows file sharing took off, it also started to kill Netware, Banyan vines etc.
In the BBS world I ran NT 3.5 server for a long time because it worked so damn well with DOS node machines without needing TCP/IP.
@apzpins Yeah, I know that here in The Netherlands OS/2 was used in quite a lot of industrial and embedded uses.
For instance de Postbank, now ING, used it on all of their ATMs, and it was used internally on office PCs for a long time as well.
It did see some office use, particularly in big IBM shops.
@hp I used to be an IT manager of a CNC milling plant, we had plenty of things that ran classic OSes, usually DOS. We had an EDM cutter that ran OS/2. I was apparently the only one who had ever actually used the OS, even the service guy for the machine just followed a guide with pictures when even doing basic configuration.
Ivor Hewitt@hp bah. Annoyed I've thrown mine away a long time ago.... But... I'm sure I've still got a NeXT Step x86 box somewhere.
@ivor Ohhh, nice! That sounds like a fun artifact! :D
Utility Nerd@hp
Is this the version that came on a CD or the one on 20 floppy disks?
Is this the version that came on a CD or the one on 20 floppy disks?
@UtilityNerd This one comes on two CDs! One CD is the OS itself, the other is a bonus pack.