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OS/2 and Windows NT
Name: RIDELLER Date: February 9, 2000 at 10:35:44 Pacific
Comment:
Where can i get a driver NT for OS/2 (i mean a web site) How can i open a NT session with OS/2?
Name: Roland Nilsson Date: February 10, 2000 at 00:50:58 Pacific
Reply:
I'm badly out of my depth here, but I think I saw someone mention, apropos the close relationship between OS/2 and NT (was it on about.com perhaps?), that NT 3.51 actually had such a driver, called something like pinball.dll but that it had been removed in later versions.
Is that anything like what you asked?
HTH, Roland
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Response Number 2
Name: SkyWizard Date: February 13, 2000 at 22:05:06 Pacific
Reply:
HPFS driver? pinball.sys... leave behind since NT 3.51. Probably if you download the service pack for NT 3.xx, you can get it... extract the archive.. heh
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Response Number 3
Name: sean maiorca Date: January 17, 2001 at 01:16:11 Pacific
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Hi, I am abit new to OS/2 my self got a coppy pf warp 3 last year and just upgraded to warp 4. Their is astrong relastionship between OS/2 and windows NT, as they were originaly the same OS. OS/2 first came out as a 16 b it multitasking os for the 286. From what I heard it sucked big time back then. MS left the project and IBM started OS/2 version 2 which was 32 bit for the 386 MS came out with win NT which showed all the buggy code was their fault not IBM's. In all the versions of NT I have used 4.0 and 200 their still is an OS/2 subset, this isn't the same OS/2 we know and love but rather that first 16 bit that was hampered by the 286 and M$'s inability to design a working project and intentional sabotage.
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