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  1. Posts : 3,371
    W10 Pro desktop, W11 laptop, W11 Pro tablet (all 64-bit)
       #51

    Barman58 said:
    ... We used it as it had a full protected 16 bit mode, the only easily available OS to do so at the time and It ran certain industrial applications very well :)
    I worked on such a product but IT departments were hesitant to install OS/2 servers since they lacked the expertise to support them. We ended up rewriting the software to use Win NT instead. For a short time we actually were developing for OS/2 and Win NT concurrently.

    The OS I left off my list is Android. I have an Android phone, 2 Android tablets and an Android mini-PC.
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    Windows 11 Pro x64 [Latest Release and Release Preview]
       #52

    Our use was for running single application, Data acquisition and control systems, so IT managers were not an issue
    We used a few versions of OS/2 up to and including Warp.

    From 1995 onwards we started to migrate to NT and were fully on NT for Client - Server configurations by the end of 96, when NT 4 was more generally available The SCADA systems used a lot of dedicated I/O and the HAL suited this way of working.

    We were so at the cutting edge at that time we used to get the System engineers for the SCADA developers ringing us up for help with systems they'd sold to our competitors We never led them astray of course although it did mean that we could get the software developers to fly out to site to solve issues themselves, that certainly impressed the client :)

    Happy times
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    Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1
       #53

    The OS/2 looks like something to play with in a VM, but it's $259.
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    Windows 10 Pro x64 EN-GB
       #54

    Britton, have you checked VirtualBox Virtual Appliances | VirtualBoxImages.com They might have it.

    OS/2 was really in some aspects ahead of its time. Compared to Windows 2.0 which was released about the same time OS/2 was superior in so many ways.

    I liked it, quite a lot.
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    Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1
       #55

    Kari that is beyond be, I don't know what VDI or Virtual Appliance is. I saw a OS/4 listed bit didn't look the same.
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  6. Posts : 415
    Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 32-bit; Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (VM).
       #56

    Hmm...I don't have an example of OS/2 yet (slinks off to the nearest car-boot sale).

    Wenda.
    Last edited by Wenda; 24 Apr 2013 at 04:48.
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    Windows 10 Pro x64 EN-GB
       #57

    Britton30 said:
    Kari that is beyond be, I don't know what VDI or Virtual Appliance is. I saw a OS/4 listed bit didn't look the same.
    A virtual appliance in this context is a pre-installed operating system on a virtual hard disk. Other type of virtual appliance is a specific pre-installed application running on a specific OS on a virtual machine.

    To use a virtual appliance simply download it, create a new virtual machine selecting existing virtual hard disk (your downloaded virtual appliance) and run the vm.

    VDI (Virtual Disk Image) is a virtual hard disk format used for instance by VirtualBox.

    Kari
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    Linux CENTOS 7 / various Windows OS'es and servers
       #58

    Hi there
    First Real OS'es -- 1 ) Mainframe IBM MVS/370 - running this on an "Emulator" -- HERCULES -- note it's not a VM but emulating real IBM s/370 instructions. Screenshot enc including a TSO session.

    2) Windows 3.11 screenshot enc .

    (Earlier versions of Windows were just "Toys" -- Windows 3.11 was my first REAL working Network OS that was used in the workplace too).

    Cheers
    jimbo
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  9. Posts : 415
    Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 32-bit; Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (VM).
       #59

    I learned on Windows 3.1, and always liked it.
    My WfW 3.11 setup is still perfectly useable even today.
    The only real drawback with it nowadays is its lack of decent security
    so I don't let it (or indeed most of my older OSes) loose online.

    Wenda.
    Last edited by Wenda; 24 Apr 2013 at 04:49.
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  10. Posts : 983
    10 x64 | 7 x64
       #60

    Anyone else remember Tandy Deskmate II
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