(Excerpts from a message dated 10-18-99, Albert Sodyl to Murray Lesser)

Hi Albert--

AS>I know OS/2 v2.1 are no longer supported, but I still need to find
  >the latest fixpack for it because it's the only version that I will
  >ever use, all other one's are very expensive to me, I got 2.1 free
  >from a friend.

    They were called "Corrective Service Diskettes" (not FixPaks) in
those days.  There were a few "patches" for OS/2 v 2.1 distributed on
Walnut Creek's "Hobbes" CD-ROMs for 1993 and 1994.  OS/2 v 2.11 was very
short lived, having been replaced by Warp 3 shortly after it arrived on
the scene, but there was one CSD for v 2.11 distributed on the Hobbes
CD-ROM for March 1995, and a few shown on the Archived Hobbes CD-ROM for
September 1997 (the most recent one I have).  I haven't the slightest
idea as to whether or not any of these are still available.

    I have no recollection that I ever applied a CSD to OS/2 v 2.1
during the time I was using it (2.1 was largely a "bug fix" for 2.0),
and I am sure that I never "updated" to v 2.11.  I've never believed in
being the first kid on the block with a new operating system, nor with
an unneeded FixPak for that matter.  However, sometimes there are valid
reasons to update.

AS>I have to use os/2, it's my only choice, either that, or I'd be stuck
  >to win 3.1 :(

    Not a difficult choice to make.  Running an obsolete version of OS/2
is always better than running an obsolete version of Windows.  In either
case, you may have Y2K problems, and you can't run any programs that
require a later version to operate.  Most certainly, you would be better
off with Warp 4 plus at least FixPak 5.  But if this is not possible--

    If your current installation of 2.1 is running OK, why do you need
any "FixPaks" for it?  Most CSDs in those days were to handle problems
associated with new hardware and the remaining bugs in the programming
interface (IMO, more bugs have been introduced by FixPaks than were in
the original code).  Early CSDs did not add new features.

    Regards,

        --Murray

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