OS/2 isn't dead: ArcaOS update brings the 1980s-era OS to modern UEFI PCs

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• Draegur@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Microslop: *messily committing public suicide* Literally every other OS: “MY DAY HAS COME!”

  And I’m not even saying that as a criticism; there has literally never been a better time to make a move in DECADES.

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• hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  loooong time since i used OS2, thought it would go somewhere, but then I thought the Amiga would and I liked BeOS

  wtf would I know :)

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  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I liked BeOS

    I never had the chance to use it but those tabbed title bars were slick.

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    • MolochHorridus@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Try Haiku.

      https://www.haiku-os.org/

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  • jimmy90@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    now you use nixos correct?

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• MolochHorridus@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Too bad their business model is totally whack for personal use.

  One time purchase of $139 for 6 months of “support and maintenance” and then $49 a year for driver updates and such.

  It’s like they don’t want individuals using it. I’d imagine anyone who would be willing to pay that would be a commercial user with some old software that ArcaOS technically supports. Then it might be worth the price to be able to run said software with newer hardware.

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  • elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They probably don’t want personal users. I remember seeing, not long ago, an OS/2 error screen in an older, but not ancient, ATM. I imagine there are other industrial/commercial machines still running it, and the technical support must be rather straightforward.

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  1980s?

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• ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  80’s? I thought it came out around the same time as windowed 95. Or am I thinking of OS/2 Warp?

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