For questions regarding IBM's operating system OS/2.
For questions regarding OS/2 (including OS/2 Warp) and technologies closely associated with the operating system, including Presentation Manager.
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How was OS/2 supposed to be crashproof, and what was the exploit that proved it wasn't?
I seem to remember that IBM claimed one of its versions of OS/2 was crashproof. I believe they specifically said it was "crashproof" or some similar term to indicate that it would never crash.
But someone came up with an exploit that caused OS/2 to…
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Best way to recover OS/2 1.3 installation from bad NIC driver
I have OS/2 1.3 Extended installed on a 286 and after installing a NIC driver for LAN Manager, a trap is generated during startup when the NIC driver is loaded and it halts. I suspect the driver is not for 1.x, so I want to remove it. I'm not sure…
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