Re: [Thinkpad] What OS to use?

I used OS/2 Warp untill my hard drive died.

It was very stable.

The only thing that irritated me was the memory committment required by the
print spooler,
and the sometimes unclear instructions.

To go to OS/2 again, I'd have to get the driver modification to load on a
disk of today's size.
And not sure what else. It would be 'cool' if one could copy the install
disk/CD to the hard
drive, and then run the latest fixpak against it, and THEN burn that to a
load CD so as
to get all the up-to-date updates.

Allan Ballard
TP 760CD - daily use
TP 760X - screen getting too dim, time to retire it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] What OS to use?

> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:02:01 -0600, ron wrote:
> >OK, what OS is the best for dummies? I want to flush Bill Gates and his
> >windozzzzzzs!!! But I need to have access to the net with all my think
> >pad equipment. [USB, PCMCIA, printers, scanners, modems Etc....]
>
> Years ago I also decided to get off the MS treadmill and adopted IBM's
> OS/2. I am extremely pleased with the results. Basically it never
> crashes and never gets viruses. Since I am my own MIS manager, this OS
> has allowed me to devote my time to my business and family rather than
> babysitting the computer.
>
> Due to threats from MS (this all came out at the antitrust trial), IBM had
> to stop retail sales of OS/2, but they have licensed the code to Serenity
> Systems who sell it as eComStation (eCS).
>
> You have to spend a bit of time installing it but once it's in, it's in.
> There is an excellent support infrastructure (newsgroups + Serenity).
>
> eCS runs OS/2 and DOS programs, Win 3.1 programs, many Win9x programs
(using
> an extender called Odin) and ALL Windows or Linux programs using (sold
> separately) VPC. I occasionally run Win98 programs which came as
> the OEM OS on my TPs. I will never install any later MS OS due to the
> invasive requirements to which one must agree at install time.
>
> You cannot run Win printers out of box with eCS, but there is a simple
> workaround using Ghostscript. You also cannot run Win modems; you have
> to use real modems.
>
> USB: you cannot run some devices because eCS sticks strictly to the USB
> spec, whereas a lot of USB Win drivers are custom-kludged and violate
> the spec.
>
> Scanners: there are lots of scanners but you probably have to go the
> SCSI route for scanners, not USB.
>
> Running OS/2 instead of Windows has saved me thousands of dollars a year
> (in time).
>
> Jeffrey Race
>
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