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   Peter Flass to All   
   Re: best os2 version for development?   
   14 Apr 11 15:47:20   
   
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   From: Peter Flass    
      
   On 4/14/2011 8:29 AM, Andreas Kohl wrote:   
   > Will Honea schrieb:   
   >>   
   >> I used 2.11 until I was pretty much forced to Warp Connect (Warp 3) by   
   >> the lack of networking in 2.11. The move from Warp 3 to Warp 4 was   
   >> basically a   
   >   
   > There existed too much options for networking. Some of this stuff   
   > becomes integrated later in Warp Connect, Warp Server and Warp 4.   
   >   
   > To get OS/2 2.x networked, take one of this:   
   > * IBM TCP/IP 2.0   
   > * IBM OS/2 Extended Services   
   > * IBM OS/2 LAN Server / Requester 4.0   
   > * IBM DCE Client   
   > * IBM Communications Manager/2 1.11   
   > * Novell Netware Requester 2.12   
   > * Microsoft LAN Manager Client 2.2   
   > ...   
   >   
   > Or you could simply download the latest MPTS installer from IBM's FTP   
   > server.   
   >   
   >> business decision as my major contracts were using Warp 4 but with the   
   >> latest fixpaks taht was not a really big change in usability.   
   >>   
   >> I would interject that VACCP 3 was probably the best development   
   >> platform I have used once they got the debugger straightened out but I   
   >> was never comfortable with VisualAge 4 - they never got that solid   
   >> enough to suit me. If you do database interface and/or WPS   
   >> development, VACPP 3 is hard to beat.   
   >   
   > True, only for device driver development or similar tasks you will need   
   > 16bit Tools, which means MS MASM 5.1 & 6.0, MS C 6.0 or Watcom.   
   >   
   > Andreas   
   >   
   >   
      
   Or Alp?  Used to come with the DDK and some other IBM products.  I don't    
   know where to get a reasonably usable copy now. [hint: not Hobbes.]   
      
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