Development, round II

From: Philip.Belben_at_powertech.co.uk <(Philip.Belben_at_powertech.co.uk)>
Date: Mon Feb 2 11:38:45 1998

> > >BTW What is Warp? Is it the OS/2 windowing system? If so, why would I
> > >want to use it at all, let alone on a 286? ;-)
> >
> > Warp is OS/2v3. You couldn't use it on a 286, but if you had, say, a
> > 486/33 -- do pardon me for mentioning a nine-year-old part -- it would
> > begin to be worth playing with. My copy of Warp is still very much to
> > hand, and I think anyone who can scrounge up an appropriate computer should
> > run it (for a while) if they have the opportunity, because it's a real
> > education.
>
> Runs just peachy on my old 386/25. Faster than Windows 3.1 did, not
> that that's a compliment. I will admit that I prefer it, though of
> course all of my high-end machines run Linux.
   
I seem to be reading a lot of good things about OS/2 here apart from the
price. Since it looks as though I may have found a source of decent
hard disk drives for my Compaq LTE Lite 20 machines I shall seriously
consider OS/2 for one of them. The other one, of course, will run
either Linux or Free BSD - Linux seems to have the vote so far.

Thankyou everyone.

Philip.
Received on Mon Feb 02 1998 - 11:38:45 GMT