Best OS/2 1.3 or 2.1 Machine

[Scott Stevens]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 17:50:25 -0400
"Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:

> I was wondering since IBM produced OS/2 did any of their machines
> (PS/2 series maybe) run OS/2 better then clones or other companies
> machines. I have OS/2 1.1 Extended up to 4.0 in my collection and was
> thinking of getting a dedicated machine to test them out on. Since I
> have used Warp before I was thinking about trying the older versions
> like 2.1.
> 
> Any  ideas?
> 
A few years back I worked at a Medical Device manufacturer who developed
an embedded product using OS/2.  So there was a whole team of OS/2
developers.  This was actually one of the last large outside-IBM
embedded OS/2 shops, in fact.  It was later (the OS/2 Warp era) but
there was not a single Microchannel machine in sight.  Lots of IBM
machines from the post PS/2 era, though.

I have an IBM PC Server 704 (a big file cabinet sized quad pentium pro
behemoth) and there's OS/2 drvier support for it.  My recommendation is
to tailor your hardware choice to systems that have good driver support
in OS/2.

I wouldn't mind running my PC Server 704 as an OS/2 Warp Server, but I
don't have any idea where to track down Warp Server installation media. 
It's a dandy machine running NetBSD 2.0 at present.