-=> MARK HOFMANN wrote to NICK ANDRE <=-


 MH> That was my experience as well.  OS/2 was the best multitasker for DOS,
 MH> handled
 MH>  my BBS nodes better than DOS by itself, and allowed me to use my
 MH> computer for other things at the same time.  This of course was back

Agreed, multitasking was a dream on OS/2 and when you tried the same on
Win 3.1 or Win95, it was terrible. 

 MH> When I got OS/2 working in VMware ESXi, that was huge.  I freed the BBS
 MH> from it's old hardware, no more driver issues ever again, and it all
 MH> works fantastic.  Even on my new HP DL-380 which has almost 300GB of

I started out running eCS1.2 in VirtualBox and that worked out great.
But for some reason I longed to have it running on it's own box. I fixed
that urge by picking up some Thinkpad T43's, which eCS installed and ran
on fine. 

I put ArcaOS5 on that same hardware it even even ran better, and not
just everyday processing, bootup was a lot quicker as well.

I have not tried it on new hardware yet, but I doubt I'll be using
ArcaOS2 for everyday tasks, so no real need to experiment just yet. 

Kev 
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