OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 differences
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Name: R-T-B
Date: May 28, 2003 at 17:26:07 Pacific
Subject: OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 differences
OS: OS/2 Warp 3 or 4
CPU/Ram: 100 Mhz 32MB RAM
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Comment: Hi, I'm a newbie to OS/2 but have allways wanted to try it. I was thinking about loading OS/2 Warp 3 or 4 onto a old notebook. I've allready downloaded the disk images for OS/2 Version 1.30 but it's limited for me. Could someone detail the differences between OS/2 Warp 3 and 4, and does OS/2 Warp 4 include Windows 3.x support by default? (I don't think Warp 3 does). Any advice would be great, thanks.
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Response Number 1
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Name: Petit Jean
Date: May 29, 2003 at 06:11:03 Pacific
Subject: OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 differences |
Reply: (edit)OS/2 Warp 3 has basically two versions: one with the Windows 3.1 as part of it and one without but taking advantage of an existing Win3.1 installation already present on the hard drive.Dual boot is done via a dos session where you type ' boot /dos ' to get back to dos and ' cd os2 ' followed by ' boot /os2 'to get back to OS/2.I use the one without Win 3.1 and find it stable(Ihave my own Win 3.1 disks).When you wish to uninstall OS/2,use the osdelete program from the 3 service diskettes to avoid running into problems with the particular way OS/2 manages its files:it has a system with file attributes and these will not be deleted by any dos or Windows system and you will end up with a maze of problems even thinking the hard drive is defective.If you take into account these few hints you will have a good experience with OS/2.Unfortunately I have not used OS/2 Warp 4.Good luck.
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Response Number 2
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Name: R-T-B
Date: May 29, 2003 at 12:25:54 Pacific
Subject: OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 differences
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Reply: (edit)Thanks, but I really need to know what the
differences between OS/2 Warp 3 and 4
are. Particularly I want to know if OS/2
Warp 4 has windows 3.x support built in
and what it's system requirements are.
Thanks.
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Response Number 3
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Name: Petit Jean
Date: May 30, 2003 at 08:19:13 Pacific
Subject: OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 differences |
Reply: (edit)As far as I know, IBM made OS/2 WARP 4 backward compatible with WARP 3 (to retain customer base)for hardware , all your programs running on WARP 3 and the service packs.A 486-33 8 Mo RAM is enough to run the OS but I am sure you have a better computer from the specs you show in your Post.Windows 3.1 is still fairly easy to find if this is what worries you most.Good luck.
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Response Number 4
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Name: Phil Calvert
Date: May 31, 2003 at 18:49:17 Pacific
Subject: OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 differences |
Reply: (edit)Hi, Check out this page for some of the differences between the different versions of OS/2: > http://www.millennium-technology.com/HistoryOfOS2.html Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to see the part about OS/2 Warp.
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