ArcaOS 5.1.0 (OEM OS/2 Warp Operating System) Now Available

'ArcaOS 5.1.0 is an OEM distribution of IBM's discontinued OS/2 Warp operating system. This new version of ArcaOS offers UEFI compatibility allowing it to run in modern x86 hardware and also includes the ability to install to GPT-based disk layouts. At OS2World the OS/2 community has been called upon to report supported hardware, open source any OS/2 software, make public as much OS/2 documentation as possible and post the important platform links. OS2World insists that open source has helped OS/2 in the past years and it is time to look under the hood to try to clone internal components like Control Program, Presentation Manager, SOM and Workplace Shell.' -- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/09/02/1912223 The one and only time I came across OS/2 was in the late 90s (at a bank)... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ Mobile +64 22 190 2375 https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 09:59:44 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'ArcaOS 5.1.0 is an OEM distribution of IBM's discontinued OS/2 Warp operating system.'
For those interested in the whole sorry saga of OS/2, and the even sorrier saga over the mishandling of the “Warp” name (Star Trek? What Star Trek?), there is a pretty thorough report here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAMT187GWd4>. Be warned, it is just about 100 minutes long.
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro
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Peter Reutemann