OS/2 Warp, was Re: PCjr Telnet Server Test - Done!

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Zane H. Healy schrieb:
>> Zane H. Healy wrote:
>>> At 10:36 AM -0400 9/17/08, madodel wrote:
>>>> There are usually a copy or 2 on eBay relatively cheap.  But OS/2 Warp
>>>> had only dialup TCP support.  For full TCP/IP stack you need Warp
>>>> Connect or Warp 4.
>>> I know Warp Connect only supports a *very* limited number of NIC's.
>>> Finding one that is supported was my biggest challenge, and I was
>>> pulling from a large pool of NIC's.
>> Warp 4 is a bit better in that regard.
>>
>> Peace...  Sridhar
> 
> I don't doubt it, though I've never even seen V4, and mainly used V2 & V2.1.
> The thing everyone should remember is that when Warp 3 came out network
> cards in PC's still weren't that common.  They weren't uncommon, but
> definitely not standard like they've become.

Provided the machine is not so old to have something like PCI, you can 
meanwhile use many modern ETH cards with OS/2. For 2.0 and 2.1, you need 
the separate TCP/IP product (including LAPS), and the normal ETH drivers 
for Warp Connect, Warp 4 and eComstation will usually still work. The 
mentioned "demo" version of Warp 4 can help to obtain the missing stuff.
In the past when I worked on XFree86/OS2, I had more than once mixed 
drivers between different OS/2 versions - it was extremely compatible.

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Holger