Hi! Sean,

On Sun, 04 Dec 11, you wrote to me:

 SD> That's because in this day and age you'd be nuts to want to run OS/2.
 SD> :)

Ooh, I dunno about that.  If there was a downloadable .ISO of it I'd like
to test it with VirtualBox.  I have fond memories of running the Warp 3.0
interface in WFWG 3.11, on top of Win95's DOS 7.00... an accidental config
that lasted only a few months, before I stuffed it up somehow and got
forced into a complete Win95 config.  (It used to run various forms of
FrontDoor & RemoteAccess BBS.)  (I have only a few screen captures to
remind me of that folly.)

A buddy of mine that I left behind in Brisbane after I resigned in '93 told
me later that the same Warp 3.0 interface also worked in Win95!!  It was a
replacement Program Manager IIRC, designed by a couple of IBM software
engineers to provide a "live desktop" for Windows 3.  =:)

There again, I did have some (bad) experience with OS/2 2.1 in the early
nineties but that's better left unsaid...

 SD> Actually, I shouldn't say that.  I personally don't use it for my
 SD> personal OS but it's always been rock-solid for me as a server OS for
 SD> the past 15 years or so.

My preference these days is anything linux-ie but I do speak Windows &
MS-DOS fluently.

 SD> I have been tossing about the idea of setting up a Linux-based BBS
 SD> but unfortunatly with going to college full-time and working three
 SD> jobs the time needed to do that kind of project is something I just
 SD> don't have right now.

The simplest solution is MBSE, considering that it's been successfully
tested with IPv6.  Simple is an understatement as its installation requires
a lot of work.  However, it does represent one possible future (overtones
of Terminator, there).  :)

Cheers,
Paul.

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