Nostalgia ain't what it used to be...

Though I do have a complete OS2 Warp4 package somewhere...complete with a squillion installation floppies.

I've never seen or used OS/2 and I'm 29

I'm 31 and I have. It was a bit of a flop and not widely distributed. Which may explain why so many people have not heard of it.

OS/2 was an operating system that seemed to go unnoticed. I remember using it back in the day. Hell, the big chain grocery store where I live was using it to run their registers until about a year ago.

It was a much superior OS to anything out at the time. I remember running a two line BBS with it a long, long time ago.

You know, I would *really* like to see Brad actually *discuss* something on this forums. The trend I've noticed lately is that he makes a single post about 'whatever', everybody jumps in with different opinions, and not a peep from him is heard again until the next totally unrelated post.

Sorry Brad, but that's not the Brad I know for 10 years.  Will you please come back down to earth? Seriously, we need you here.

@unacomn

Dogs crawl under fences, computers crawl under Windows!

OS/2 user since IBM version 1.2 Extended Edition!

Awesome Bunnahabhain!  I didn't even know it existed till version 2.0, and didn't run it myself till 2.1.

edit: Oh, and Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7 all have their roots in OS/2

I never have any experience with OS/2 (besides translating documentation to the Warp server some 15 years ago), but I am happy with Linux distros and FreeBSD today.

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What is a floppies ?

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both my laptop and desktop have no floppies drive... something who is not anymore used...

About OS2, it is not yet fully dead... some fan guys are working on a open-source version ( http://www.osfree.org/wiki/doku.php )... and it is some features of OS2 ( like JFS : journaling file system ) who have be used for create Linux...

And.. OS2 is not dead at all, it is now called eComStation ( http://www.ecomstation.com/product_info.phtml )... can run OS2, windows 32 bits, windows 16 bit, DOS, X11, Java application on it... last version is from may 2010 ( http://www.osnews.com/story/23337/eComStation_2_0_Released )... ( http://en.ecomstation.ru/myths/ ) ... 2010 is one year ago, it is less old that sins of solar empire

Yeah, for me linux has filled the OS/2 void as well.  I just hope it gets popular enough that we'll start seeing some Stardock products for it.

I can dream can't I?

Never knew about OS/2. I started with Windows for Workgroups. Had a home built soon after and I ran a multi-boot with Win 95, 98SE and NT4.0. Tried 2000 but didn't like it. Kept freezing and hanging up. Sort of like Vista. lol

I did use OS/2 back in the day and it was the best system I ever used then. I remember when I tried Windows 95 after being used to usability, stability and multi-tasking of OS/2 Win95 was just horrible... Sadly at the time I did not know about Galactic Civilizations for OS/2...

Phil Jackson thought it was cool.  But I don't think he misses it.