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A comment on OS/2 2.0, Summer ’91 Edition. Parent comment

Re:OS/2 2.0, Summer ’91 Edition by magoon on Sunday April 09, 2017 @08:10AM (#14071884)
That's just a misleading label on the 1 bootable disk to start the installer itself. You really do need many of the other 20+ disks to install the OS.

I had this exact set of floppies.

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Re:OS/2 2.0, Summer ’91 Edition by JdeBP on Monday April 10, 2017 @02:39AM (#14076522)
Do you remember pressing ALT-F1 when the blob appeared to get a (TUI, but no session manager) OS/2 environment running from removable disc? (-:
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Re:OS/2 2.0, Summer ’91 Edition by mcguire on Sunday April 09, 2017 @11:21AM (#14072692)
Plus an extra for TCP/IP and a bunch more for Communications Manager. God, I spent a lot of time installing those.
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Re:OS/2 2.0, Summer ’91 Edition by pavlov on Sunday April 09, 2017 @11:50AM (#14072839)
I had forgotten the existence of OS/2 Warp Connect. Now I may have nightmares of staring at an installer.

We have it pretty easy these days, when even the worst Chinese piece of junk can be assumed to get onto a WLAN and connect to a singular global network. No protocols to configure, no add-on software to install.

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