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OS/2 is safe

1) OS/2 1.0 was the father of the NT/Win2000 chain, and is not closely related to the DOS/Win/Win9x/ME chain. OS/2 runs most apps which will run on Win 2.x and Win3.x, but does so in protected space on a virtual machine.

2) All versions of OS/2 after 1.x were 32-bit IBM products, with major differences between them and 16-bit 1.x versions, and barely related at all to NT/Win2000.

Given the above, it is astronomically unlikely that code written to exploit the weaknesses in Windoze will affect OS/2 2.x, Warp 3, Warp 4 or eCom Station.

Every day I think more about reinstalling OS/2 on my systems. With the exception of my map program (a Win9x app), every other app that I use is available in an OS/2 version (Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, etc). eCom Station is the heir to OS/2, and there is a petition drive asking OBM to hand off OS/2 to the public, now that they have discontinued all sales of the platform.

Posted by: critic-at-arms   Posted on: 04/05/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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