The Warpcyclopaedia

What is OS/2 ? What is eCS ? In this world flooded with Microsoft it is good to know, that there is hope for you, that you can escape from Micorsoft, and having Windows installed is neither necessary nor selfevident. This page is for people who want to go where THEY want to go today. With stories from people using it, including my story. Which operatins systems exist today, and what are their relative merits. What about the trial against Microsoft ? Klick on the image left, to enter section [1] of this site: the realm of freedom of operating systems.

Suppose you want to install OS/2 or eCS on your PC, or suppose you consider purchasing a new PC with OS/2 installed. Of course you want to find out about hardware support. How to get the right driver for that single piece of hardware you would like to use. Does it exist, does it support all feature I want to use, where can I get it ? May be you want OS/2 but also need to have it coexist with some other oparting system. If your installation fails, how to recover or to repair? Klick on the image left to enter section [2] of this site: the realm of installing OS/2.

IBM has set a standard by creating OS/2 Warp. Traditionally OS/2 is like any other IBM products, second best to something else. That something else is a different thing, dependent on what you want to improve. No single product surpasses OS/2 on all fronts. However, if you have specific needs, OS/2 offers you enormous capabilities to extend, enhance, replace or improve any part. Some improvements or enhancements or extensions are mutually exclusive, or are only applicable to users with specific needs. Learn everything about modifying, improving, extending, enhancing parts of OS/2. Klick the picture left to enter section [3] of this site: the realm of modifying OS/2.

Hundreds, may be thousdands of OS/2 applications have been built: freeware, shareware and commercial software. OS/2 also supports DOS and Windows 3.1 applications.Applications not written for OS/2 can easily be ported. Since OS/2 also supports older applications very well, many of them are still very usable. OS/2 does not oblige you to buy new versions of common applications every two years. Klicking the picture left lets you enter section [4] of this site: the applications domain.



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OS/2 warp titels (section 1)
[1.1] What is an operating system
[1.2] History of OS/2 warp and eCS
[1.3] Strength and weaknesses
[1.4] USDOJ vs. Microsoft in court
[1.5] Choosing your operatingsystem
[1.6] What others write about OS/2 Warp and eComstation
OS/2 warp titels (section 2)
[2.1] About harddisks and partitioning
[2.2] Device drivers for OS/2
[2.3] Coexistance of OS/2 with other Operating systems
[2.4] Maintenance partitions
[2.5] Where to find OS/2 and eCS
OS/2 warp titels (section 3)
[3.1] File management in OS/2 and eCS
[3.2] Filesystems for OS/2 warp
[3.3] The user interface
[3.4] Rendering data
[3.5] OS/2 Warp and eComStation in a network
[3.6] Tuning and tweeking OS/2 and eCS
OS/2 warp titels (section 4)
[4.1] Office applications
[4.2] Graphical applications
[4.3] The internet and OS/2
[4.4] OS/2 and processcontrol
[4.5] Multimedia and sound
[4.6] Software development
[4.7] Cross platform software support
[4.8] Vertical market applications
Preface
Starting to build an encyclopaedia for the OS/2 Warp and eComstation user community is a tremendous task, which I do not expect to complete overnight. I therefore would welcome any volunteer to adopt one or more of the subjects above, allowing me to concentrate on the editorial aspects and the remaining subjects.
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latest update: January 1st, 2002