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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
This WebRing site is run by Arnold van Overeem.
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