I use it in dual boot mode with WIN98. All my e-mail runs off OS/2 using PMMAIL/2 2.2. I also use it as a staging platform for the testing of Java2 apps. Current drivers are still available via the IBM OS2DDPAK database.

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I still use OS/2 version 4 and EComStation as my primary OS's at home for mainly Internet access (web browsing) and just about anything and everything else I need to do with a personal computer. I am "curious" that you are "curious" as to WHY people would do this?... My answer is that the simple reason is that it WORKS -and that it works WELL! I'm sorry, but not everyone in this world is brainwashed into thinking that Windows is the only way to get a PC to do anything productive. I've used one form or another of OS/2 since 1992 starting with OS/2 Version 2.0. Of course I've used other systems too but OS/2 is one of my favorites and will remain so until I cannot get it to do what I want it to do with a PC. And that seems unlikely with all of the support that I continually find on the Internet and throughout the world. Contrary to what many people think, you CAN run your PC productively without Microsoft's Windows operating systems or Windows applications. There ARE alternatives but many people are uninformed or just lazy about researching their options. Microsoft has capitalized on this fact and they have also gone out of their way to ensure consumer confusion leads to a Microsoft solution.

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I do. I have 4 computers that run only OS/2 Warp. (Varing from 3.0 - 4.5 (+eCS)) Large hard disks are supported; You need a newer version of OS2DASD.DMD. (And, perhaps, your controller driver) You may want to install the latest fixpak. Try this site: http://www.os2ss.com/MasterUpdate/

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I think Crash also uses OS/2 and he's playing Devils Advocate here ! People coming to this forum are obviously fans of the OS and the response Crash received was pretty well predicatble. Here's my 5 penneth: I use Warp 4 CP2 as my primary OS at home, at work I have to use and support several flavours of Windows. I am both OS/2 and Windows Certified (the latter, needed for the job, not by choice). I find myself often comparing Bills latest offerings and they ARE getting better. I'd say .NET Server 2003 is about at LAN Server 5 level now, he's still got a way to go before it's capabilities reach the technical capabilities of e_business Server (the current OS/2 Server offering). On the client side, XP/2000 is technically on par with OS/2 Warp 3 - again about 4-5 years behind. Windows lack of stability and reliabilty is famous while OS2's stability is also well known. From an IT support industry viewpoint, it's actually better to have your customers running on a problemsome OS, in that way they need more support and have to pay for it. Morally questionable but typical of the industry. Why Windoze is so popular is not so much the OS, but all the applications and hardware that's available for it and there we all should take our hat's off to how well (if sometimes morally and legally suspecious) Microsoft is able to market their products. OS/2 is NOT DEAD. It's is still being upgraded to support the latest hardware, recent additions include USB 2.0 and DVD. Support is certain for the OS until the end of 2004 from IBM and extendable for a price up until at least 2006. Have you talked to anyone running Windows NT 4 server lately ? It's officially DEAD from Dec 31st, this year. As for app lication development, as well as open source projects such as Mozilla there are ported versions of many Linux applications such as CDRecord, SANE (scanning) coming over to OS/2 (and running very well)and Windows 32 bit emulation through the ODIN Open Source project and VirtualPC for OS/2. What do I use OS/2 for ? What don't I use it for ? Office productivity applications - Star Office and Lotus Smartsuite. Audio and data CD Burning - CDRecord/2 Scanning - SANE/2 with TAME/2 frontend. Multimedia file playing (including DVDs and DiVX) - WarpMedia. Web Serving - Apache/2 Firewall & NAT - Injoy. FTP Server - OS2. Web Browsing, email and news - Netscape 4.61, Mozilla v 1.2, IBM Web Browser V2, Opera/2. High quality, high resolution printing to an Epson 2880 DPI Inkjet printer (Stylus Color 680} VPN (proprietry and Injoy) All of these are current products, still being upgraded and improved. Add to that, the new OS - eComstation which is based on OS/2 Warp but looks a little more fancy and the recently released VirtualPC for OS/2 which allows you to run any Intel processor based OS on top of OS2 and there's actually more applications and options and hardware support in 2002 than there ever has been for OS2! End-of-rant, climbs down from soap-box. Cheers/2 Ed.

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