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 -=> Quoting Stan Hosdar to All <=-

 SH> I work for a large automotive company.. who buys lots of old
 SH> machines.... 
 SH> one comes in, from Switzerland, with an OS/2 warp based HMI

 SH> so, for the first time since I  began using PC's in the early 90's I
 SH> have to  learn OS/2 to maintain this beast....

 SH> it' oS/2 warp 4.0... kind of neat, running custom software in the os/2
 SH> GUI  type mode, with some kind of CAM type interface...

 SH> and i'll be maintaining it till the machine dies or is replaced, and
 SH> they even talkked about getting a second machine... it'll be in serice
 SH> probably until  2030!

 SH> crazy eh

Sweet. If it ain't broke . . .  :-)

I was one of those people in the 90's that *wanted* to use OS/2 but
could not afford the hardware to run it properly. So, instead I bought
and installed Windows 3.1.

Today I have OS/2 Warp 4 running in VirtualBox on my Linux desktop. I
also use Windows 10 for work only, which also runs in a virtual machine.

On OS/2 one thing I have yet to learn is how objects are used properly.
I mean, just trying to make what I would consider a shortcut on the
desktop to an application, I have not figured out without copying the
whole application to the desktop. But, I confess I have not put much
time into it since it's just for fun to tinker around with since I
couldn't back in the day. :-)

And for my Offline QWK Mail reading, I use DOSBOX-X with Blue Wave 2.3.
Operating systems have become applications that allow me to run sub
applications. Hahaha.


~Elf

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