Don't get me wrong - I really like OS/2. But IBM never really made pretty things, did they?

And the alt text needs to be forced upon y'all in this one:

Short video clip showing a vector drawing of a green field with a road leading past some purple mountains in the background. There's a small blob of water next to the road. There are gradients everywhere: background, mountains, road, water..
The sun is orange (also gradient) with a drop shadow like only late 80s vector drawing software could. Corel Draw maybe? It reads "OS/2 Warp" in the top right corner.

There is an absurdly large metal pole with an even larger white sign full of names printed in a horribly-rendered font (probably System Proportional). The background of the sign is white and, thankfully, not gradient. I suspect this is due to technical limitation, not artistic ones.

#RetroComputing #OS2 #Warp #Ugly #IBM #BigBlue

Also, testing hashtags on snac ;)
#OS2 #WarpServer #Memtest

Alt...

Memtest86 5.01 reporting loads of memory errors. Yay.

@harald Generally, no. Let me be verbose :D There are a lot of problems with that slash in the name which makes it hard to find and post OS/2-related stuff:

• Mastodon web UI renders it as simply <hash>OS, with the /2 dangling. I can coerce it to search for it by manually editing the URL with %2f in place of the /, but it seems to not actually search for hashtags but simply plaintext search when I do that.
• Pleroma displays "OS/2" in your message as a link to your instance, but does not interpret it as an actual hashtag - the hash (#) itself is not part of the anchor text.
• My preferred iOS client (Pipilo) fails, probably due to a server error, to display anything if I tap the link in your message. Other clients don't even try to send the /2 at all, considering the slash another word separator.

Whichever search engine I use (not fediverse), finding OS/2 stuff is made harder because of the same issue, and you need to treat it specially by quoting or escaping or whatever your search engine of choice prefers.

#OS2 #IBM #WeirdProblems

I mean yeah, great, I get a proper BSD-4.4, 32-bit TCP/IP stack and tools. But it's taken me half a day. Getting the installation files over involved loading packet drivers and using #mTCP in a DOS session. Which works .. surprisingly well. But still .. FixPak43, reboot. MPTS, reboot. Netscape 2.02, reboot. Java 1.18, reboot. Feature Installer plug-in (no reboot). Then, finally, TCP/IP.

All this to have a machine to play with at #Blackvalley.

#OS2 #Retrocomputing #WhyAreYouReadingThis #GoDoSomethingUseful