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   In a post between "Kurt Weiske : August Abolins", on 12/4/2019 9:08 AM   
      
    KW> I *loved* OS/2 for being able to run old Windows 3.1 apps   
    KW> and run virtual dos machines with real DOS. I ran OS/2 on my   
    KW> desktop, ran the BBS under DOS, and used LANTastic, an old   
    KW> peer-to-peer network, between the BBS and a DOS window using   
    KW> MS-DOS (since LANTastic didn't make an OS/2 version...)   
      
   My bbs system was hosted on OS/2 2.1. It was only a 386/pc.  Ran smooth   
   as butter. When Warp3 came along I set up a new pc for my mom with it   
   and the Win version of Quickbooks, DOS Worperfect and a few other Win   
   and DOS programs she was already accustomed to, and set it up with FD/2   
   and point software to call my bbs. Then, the idea was to configure   
   another new pc with Warp3 and migrate the bbs to it.   
      
   But, as my luck would have it, the hdd on the OS2 2.1 machine failed at   
   the most inconvenient time.  I closed the bbs and stayed with the   
   original WinME on the "new" replacement machine. WinME wasn't too bad   
   actually. I was able to max it out to 1GB ram over the next few years.   
   My main interest at that time was internet browsing and producing CD   
   copies and MP3 discs. WinME seemed to handle that quite nicely.   
      
   In the meantime, a friend who heard about my bbs predicament sent me his   
   Warp Connect V3.  By then, I was already accustomed to WinME and the   
   accumulated win programs and never bothered with Warp Connect.  I did   
   not have the space and resources to have a "spare" pc to play with it   
   anyway.  I still have the Warp Connect.  I see listings on ebay at about   
   $100 for it.   
      
   OMG.. I just looked and I still have an unopened box of Lotus Smartsuite   
   for OS/2 (Retail $30).  I also have a Jumbo250 internal bay tape drive   
   and a pile of sealed QIC-80 tapes!   
      
      
    KW> It wasn't a better Windows than Windows, but it was a much   
    KW> better DOS than DOS.   
      
   Ya.  I used the Win-OS2 part sparingly, weening off Win programs as I   
   found suitable native OS/2 equivalents.   
      
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