Questions tagged [os2]

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.

10 questions
34
votes
3 answers

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…
pacoverflow
  • 519
  • 4
  • 10
4
votes
0 answers

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…
eesz34
  • 561
  • 1
  • 10