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Virtual PC for OS/2 released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the both-users-rejoice dept.

LordNimon writes "Who says OS/2 is dead? Not Innotek, apparently. They just released Virtual PC for OS/2 (aka VPC/2), which allows you to run any PC operating system inside OS/2. They also made available OS/2 "guest" support, which improves the support for running OS/2 under VPC for Windows. I just deleted my Linux partition amd reinstalled it under VPC/2, and now I never have to reboot again! I also heard that that OS/2 development team found a number of bugs in the core code, and the fixes were incorporated into the Windows version. Today is a great day for OS/2 users, especially those that want to try out Linux or run Windows apps that don't work with Odin."

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  1. Today is a great day for OS/2 Users! by IronTek · · Score: 1, Troll

    "Today is a great day for OS/2 users"

    It sure is, by-golly! Today, they can finally use real operating systems from inside their limping, bleeding-from-the-gums, half-dead OS!

    Break out the party hats! The sun is shining, the birds are singing! It truly is a great day for OS/2!

  2. Innotek by cscx · · Score: 1, Troll

    Word has it they are working on a new version of NCSA Mosaic for OS/2, considering they are living in a time machine.

    Makes you wonder what ever happened to those Apple ][ developers...

  3. Re:Ouch by rusty0101 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Windows itself may crash. Possibly VPC/2 will crash. YOu will be back at your OS/2 desktop, and you simply restart VPC/2, Windows in VPC/2, and reload your application (after the checkdisk required by an unclean shutdown of the windows code completes) You will probably loose any unsaved data, andy may loose additional data by virtue of Windows self corrupting nature.

    It is unlikely to affect the OS/2 platform in any way.

    Then again, perhaps the PC will go up in a puff of smoke, and the data on the network drive across the country, and all copies of that data on backup storage media stored off site will all go away.

    My opinion. My mistake to make.

    -Rusty

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  4. Flame war post, Sorry... by piecewise · · Score: 2, Troll

    I don't mean to start a fight or offer flaimbait... but what exactly is the point of "hanging on" to an outdated operating system?

    Or maybe I'm mistaken. Is OS/2 still a big deal and is widely used? If so, where is it being used so much?

    From my perspective this is "cool" I guess but not necessarily too useful...

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  5. Okay... by AnimeFreak · · Score: 1, Troll

    I beleive those two OS/2 Warp users out there will be pleased to hear this.

    I beleive they're still waiting for Quake II to be ported for them.