The Return of OS/2 Warp Set For 2016 (techrepublic.com)

An anonymous reader writes: We all know the ill-fated history of IBM's OS/2 Warp, while some others may not know about the first OS/2-OEM distribution called eComStation. Now a new company called Arca Noae, not happy with the results of this last distribution, has signed an agreement with IBM to create a new OS/2 version. They announced a new OS, codenamed "Blue Lion," at Warpstock 2015 this last October; this will be based on OS/2 Warp 4.52 and the SMP kernel. The OS/2 community has taken this news with positivism and the OS2World community is now requesting everybody that has developed for OS/2 on the past to open source their source code to collaborate.

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WTF is "positivism"?

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

>> The OS/2 community has taken this news with positivism

WTF is "positivism"? It sounds like a drug advertised during football games.

Re:WTF is "positivism"?

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, come on, cite the Marxist definition, it's so much more fun:

A trend in bourgeois philosophy which declares natural (empirical) sciences to be the sole source of true knowledge and rejects the cognitive value of philosophical study. Positivism emerged in response to the inability of speculative philosophy (e.g. Classical German Idealism) to solve philosophical problems which had arisen as a result of scientific development.

https://www.marxists.org/refer...

See, a bourgeois operating system for a bourgeois philosophy.

Re:WTF is "positivism"?

[FatdogHaiku]

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Positivism can help with feelings of negativity, despair, hopelessness and issues arising from low self esteem. Positivism is not for everyone, ask your doctor if they are stupid enough to prescribe Positivism for you. Positivism may cause sudden sexual arousal and should only be used around really good friends. Test subjects also reported uncontrollable urges to lick someone's ear. Other reported side effects include sudden explosive flatulence combined with diarrhea, random rectal bleeding, finger and or toenails turning orange, and the desire to write computer code no one will ever use. If you experience any of these side effects don't say we didn't warn you. Talk to your doctor before discontinuing Positivism. Try to see him while you have the explosive flatulence combined with diarrhea, as studies show most doctors will allow you to discontinue Positivism if you go crap up their office...

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You're so mainstream

[Anonymous Coward]

It's some very nuanced shit somewhere between nouveau-modernism and post-primitive relativism that is popular in New York. It has to be viewed through thick black glasses while sipping PBR and smoking American Spirits.

I'd tell you more about the movement, but at 42, I can't skateboard as fast as I used too.

Gotta get home!

Re:Editing?

[U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M]

This is interesting, but maybe we could have some grammatical editing before throwing up a story on the main page?

I think that's exactly how they upload their stories.

Fight for your bitcoins!

Re:OS/2 was great

[hey!]

I remember being so blown away by OS2/Warp's ability to multi-task so many applications at once, with such a clean UI.

As an older programmer, let me suggest one ought to be reticent about saying things like that. I know that by any reasonable standard it should make you sound experienced and therefore worth listening to, but if you have any gray in your hair it's bound to have a very different effect. Like the time I sat next to a guy at a banquet who was reminiscing about when his department got an IBM 701. "Yep," he said with evident satisfaction, "that was a stored program jobbie."

Employers are looking for programmers who were in diapers while you were being blown away by OS/2, so ixnay on that kind of alktay. Instead practice saying things like "Node.js is so 2015." And when someone asks you what you mean, turn to them, raise one eyebrow, then literally turn your back on them.