Best OS/2 1.3 or 2.1 Machine

[Teo Zenios]

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Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: Best OS/2 1.3 or 2.1 Machine


> In a message dated 10/7/2005 6:40:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> cisin at xenosoft.com writes:
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Teo Zenios 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
>
>
> OS/2 is a match made in heaven for the PS/2 computers. I've installed it
on a
> 9595 and it was the easiest install I ever did and I didn't have to go
> looking for drivers either.
> I just recently installed warp server for ebusiness on an IBM server 330
with
> RAID and no problems there either. Runs fine with 64meg! I even bought the
> remote management card for it and got that running with an old version of
> netfinity for OS/2 I thankfully kept. I can remotely admin the machine if
I want. I
> could not find a video driver for the integrated CL video card and ended
up
> installed a PCI trident video card since I could find a driver for it. The
IBM
> support site is totally USELESS for finding anything for older machines
now. I
> could not find any support files for this 8640-ES2 server. For OS/2
drivers,
> google on OS/2 device driver pak online and you will find what you need.

The 9595 would be a top of the line server correct? I was wondering how well
the workstations got along with OS/2. Why do I get the impression that few
people today collect and run vintage OS/2 hardware and software?