David Bongo wrote:
> As a non-developer it just seems to me that a fundamental problem is the
> closed-source base operating system which is firmly (and possibly
> forever) stuck in the 32-bit world.
Yes, 32 bit is becoming more of a problem with many projects not
worrying about wasting memory. This is even worse for our old OS as it
was first designed in a 16bit world and that gives us that pesky 512MBs
per process limitation which we partially get around with high memory.
Enough of it is still 16bit that it'll probably never be 64bit
compatible as they dropped 16bit support when in 64bit mode.
> Therefore, in my somewhat
> uninformed but still malleable opinion, the best path forward for our
> community would be to take a Linux distro and make WPS for that. Then
> there would be a 2-part path forward - enhance VirtualBox to integrate
> better with OS/2-eCS (similar to Win-OS/2 for Windows 3.1) and explore
> the possibility of getting this system to natively run OS/2 programs. We
> would pretty much by default get the latest browser and OpenOffice (or
> LibreOffice) builds while using the interface we prefer.
A WPS on Linux would be nice but difficult as it takes a certain type of
developer(s) to write.
Actually Reactos might be a better choice then Linux for a WPS as it is
a NT clone and NT was originally designed to run OS/2 programs and the
API is closer (at one time MS had the 32bit Presentation Manager running
under NT in case OS/2 won the OS wars). Still without someone with the
right skills, time and motivation it's not going to happen.
If I understand correctly, VirtualBox can already run some operating
systems seamless so that is more of a possibility. Once again need
someone with the skills and interest.
>
> As I said, I'm not a developer but at this point I kind of feel like
> it's throwing good money after bad to continue on as we are. But that's
> just me. Maybe I'm just overly fatalistic this week.
It's not just you, OS/2 was discontinued years ago now and the community
has been shrinking for a long time.
Dave
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