* Posts by JvW-DFSee

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The Hobbes OS/2 Archive logs off permanently in April

JvW-DFSee

Re: ArcaOS

I assume they would be willing too, but it would take up precious resources better spent elsewhere.

Judging from the comments here, and on other media, there will be complete copies of the HOBBES archives for years to come.

I have been using HOBBES as one of my distribution channels for the OS/2 community for decades, for my multi-platform DFSee disk utility program (www.dfsee.com).

And even after retirement, not using OS/2 (or actually ArcaOS) on a daily basis, I am glad the people at Arca Noae are quite serious about keeping it alive,

and especially, running on more modern hardware. With the 5.1 release of ArcaOS I was finally able to install on my latest laptop, a Lenovo X1, that has UEFI and GPT which made it impossible to install any other older version of OS/2 on to it.

Running it natively on that hardware feels a lot nicer (and faster) than running it in a virtual machine :-)

I started using OS/2 with the very first version (1.0), working on OS/2 1.2 extended edition for IBM, back in the late eighties when Microsoft was still part of it too, and have worked with about every version until now. For daily computer use I tend to use macOS on a macBook, and Windows 11 on my Thinkpad X1, but that is mainly because I do a lot of photo and video editing, which works better on those.

Regards, JvW