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OS/2 isn't dead: ArcaOS update brings the 1980s-era OS to modern UEFI PCs
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Alphane Moon
lemmy.world

Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-06-09
Posted:   Subject: OS/2 isn't dead: ArcaOS update brings the 1980s-era OS to modern UEFI PCs Quote

Link: https://www.techspot.com/news/111647-os2-isnt-dead-arcaos-update-brings-1980s-era.html
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Cypress
lemmy.zip

Draegur@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-07
#2 Posted:   Subject: Re: OS/2 isn't dead: ArcaOS update brings the 1980s-era OS to... Quote Reply

Microslop: *messily committing public suicide*
Literally every other OS: "MY DAY HAS COME!"

And I'm not even saying that as a criticism; there has literally never been a better time to make a move in DECADES.
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Hanrahan
slrpnk.net

hanrahan@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-03-14
#3 Posted:   Subject: Re: OS/2 isn't dead: ArcaOS update brings the 1980s-era OS to... Quote Reply

loooong time since i used OS2, thought it would go somewhere, but then I thought the Amiga would and I liked BeOS

wtf would I know :)
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MelodiousFunk
slrpnk.net

MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2024-03-08
#4 Posted:   Subject: Re: OS/2 isn't dead: ArcaOS update brings the 1980s-era OS to... Quote Reply
Hanrahan wrote:
loooong time since i used OS2, thought it would go somewhere, but then I thought the Amiga would and I liked BeOS wtf would I know :)

I liked BeOS

I never had the chance to use it but those tabbed title bars were slick.
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vacuumflower
lemmy.sdf.org
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2023-07-09
#5 Posted:   Subject: Re: OS/2 isn't dead: ArcaOS update brings the 1980s-era OS to... Quote Reply

1980s?
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elucubra
sopuli.xyz
elucubra@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-03
#6 Posted:   Subject: Re: OS/2 isn't dead: ArcaOS update brings the 1980s-era OS to... Quote Reply
MolochHorridus wrote:
Too bad their business model is totally whack for personal use. One time purchase of $139 for 6 months of “support and maintenance” and then $49 a year for driver updates and such. It’s like they don’t want individuals using it. I’d imagine anyone who would be willing to pay that would be a commercial user with some old software that ArcaOS technically supports. Then it might be worth the price...

They probably don't want personal users. I remember seeing, not long ago, an OS/2 error screen in an older, but not ancient, ATM. I imagine there are other industrial/commercial machines still running it, and the technical support must be rather straightforward.
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ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace
piefed.ca
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-12-21
#7 Posted:   Subject: Re: OS/2 isn't dead: ArcaOS update brings the 1980s-era OS to... Quote Reply

80's? I thought it came out around the same time as windowed 95. Or am I thinking of OS/2 Warp?
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Endymion_Mallorn
kbin.melroy.org

Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
Joined: 2024-11-17
#8 Posted:   Subject: Re: OS/2 isn't dead: ArcaOS update brings the 1980s-era OS to... Quote Reply

Now if only the company was willing to make the licensing terms a little friendlier for individual use, or even create an open-core version. We have 9Front and Haiku (and ReactOS), why can't we have a FOSS OS/2?
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homes
piefed.world
homes@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-12-28
#9 Posted: · edited   Subject: Re: OS/2 isn't dead: ArcaOS update brings the 1980s-era OS to... Quote Reply
MelodiousFunk wrote:
I liked BeOS I never had the chance to use it but those tabbed title bars were slick.

it was very, very nice and really fast, especially if you actually were running it on a BeBox. sadly, there was barely any software beyond some really nice audio production software.

Apple got very very close to licensing it for OS X to replace their aging Macintosh System Software, but they went with NeXTSTEP instead.
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