download os 2 warp 4 iso Documentation of Operating Systems and Developers. Main characteristics of OS/2 ( 2) are primarily the simple and powerful WPS (Workplace ), stability and technology lead in the earlier years of OS/2. The user interface is built up completely object-oriented. OS/2 of IBM does not have to be compared with DOS or Windows extensions any more since the version 2.0. This new version corresponded to a new operating system generation, which has the potential to use the full performance of a 32-bit CPU, developed only by IBM. Up to version 1.3 IBM had cooperated in development with . The beta version was tested by 30,000 voluntary. It was made under the slogan to create a "Better DOS than DOS" with success. Much programs for DOS and Windows (3.x, Win32s) are executed faster under OS/2 than in the original operating environment. The project Odin has the destination to execute Win32 programs (Windows 9.x and Windows NT) in OS/2 Warp natively. This happens by conversion of the .EXE and .DLL files into the OS/2 or about adjustment of the programcode copy in the memory as in the case of OS/2 programs. Said more exactly, the PE (Portable Executable) Win32 binary format get converted into the OS/2 LX binarily (linear eXecutable) format. A special project is the operating system eComStation developed by Serenty Systems. The last version of the OS/2 operating system was modified, enhanced and taken to the newest technical level, the user interface also was improved. OS/2 Warp 4 and 4.5. OS/2 Warp 4 was released by IBM in 1996. Because of the long-lasting support by IBM this operating system is holded up to date through service releases and newer hardware drivers to use OS/2 on current computer systems. Until May 2001 the service release 15 and the Pack 2 [0] are free of charge. With this update the system version 4.0 (rev. 9.023) was upgraded to version 4.5 (rev. 14.096 c_W4). After this release IBM grants newer updates only in context of the software subscription with costs. Furthermore free of charge are additions and driver software to support new fixed disk controllers as well as ATAPI devices. Indispensable are the driver software of Daniela Engert [1] which completely the IBM standard driver software. With this new drivers large FAT 32 partitions are accessable without problems and the drives operates now in the DMA mode instead of the much slower PIO mode. The original installation media consists of one boot and two installation floppy disks, one operating system CD-ROM with bonus pack, one application sampler CD-ROM and one driver software CD for older hardware like ISA boards. However, you will need only the boot disk, the operating system CD-ROM and more current installation floppy disks [2] for on current PCs. By the updates you got year 2000 support, new hardware devices, support for large fixed disks up to 502 GByte by the 48-bits of LBA addressing (before at most 4.3 or 8.4 GByte), memory of more than 1 GByte (instead of only 64 MByte), USB devices, faster graphics display and SMP support. FAT 16 partitions are limited to a maximum size of 2.1 GByte, HPFS partitions are recognized up to a size of 64 GByte. It is recommended to upgrade to a newer Kernel like from 11/2003 [3] and the MTRR management [4] supported by Intel P6/AMD K7. With the IFS there can be added the driver to support FAT 32 and ext2fs support. To use sound cards from Creative Labs there exists a ported Open source driver [6] , support for current graphics boards comes with the Display Doctor 7.07 in the IBM special edition [7] of SciTech. This is a lite version from the full driver software licensed for IBM to provide it to all OS/2 users for free. If the correct driver software for the available graphics board isn't contained, only a general driver software is used with only slowest standard functions to provide the highest compatibility for all unknown graphics boards. But if you don`t use OS/2 as platform to play games you will not be able to state any performance deficits. Otherwise the always current full version of SciTech remains indispensable. The internet access was established with a standard 56K modem with standard AT instructions. The contained Web browser is to old for modern use of the web and should be replaced by an alternative and more current browser. Otherwise many websites are not displayed correct. If the file size does not matter you can download the (approx. 14 MByte) or Opera browser (approx. 5 MByte) for OS/2. To play sound files the PM123 player and MMAudio pack offers its services for media access. The audio format MP3 is supported directly, support for OGG Vorbis and FLAC is also available as Plugin. Video files in the AVI and MPEG format are played best with the Warpmedia player. This also offers DivX support but only for the expired DivX format in version 3.11. Maybe it exists a codec that makes it also possible to view current DivX videos. With the Odin project there exists a Win32 emulator which makes the use of Windows programs under OS/2 possible through different ways. Comparably with under Linux, only a fraction of all applications for Windows are supported. PC Konfiguration OS/2 Warp release 4.0 (rev. 9.023, original version 1994) OS/2 Warp release 4.5 (rev. 14.096c_W4, incl. updates up to 2003) AMD Athlon XP 2600+ without extended features supports MTRR management 1024 MByte RAM 64 MByte recognized complete utilizable Seagate 80 GByte and 120 GByte harddisk drive not utilizable, PIO mode complete utilizable, DMA mode Geforce 4-TI-4200 Graphiccard 640x480 with 16 colours up to 1600x1200 with 16 Mio. colours Soundblaster 512 PCI soundcard not utilizable complete utilizable ELSA Microlink 56K Modem complete utilizable complete utilizable. Installation With the use of the newer setup floppy disks as mentioned large harddisks are utilizably and the desired partition can be selected for the installation. This must be selected as a start partition () and marked as installation destination. If you don't take care about this, data loss in the just active partition can be happen. OS/2 Warp 4 is established in this example as the 3rd primary partition with 2.0 GB of size. The booting manager is installed only in this one. As filesystem you should certainly choose HPFS to make long file names possible and avoid installation aborts by to short file names. [0] Hobbes large OS/2 archive hobbes.nmsu.edu, the service and device Driver pack should be downloaded from here since the installation was simplified [1] Daniela Engert: danidasd144.zip (EIDE driver from 11/2001), daniatapi0315.zip (ATAPI driver from 01/2004), danis506r168.zip (chipset driver from 03/2004) can be obtained at Hobbes OS/2 archive; FAT-32 support from fat32.netlabs.org [2] newer installation floppy disks from 04/2002 at warpdoctor.org [3] OS/2 Warp Kernel from 11/2003, w41103.zip [4] P6K7MTRR ver.0.08a from 06/2002, p6k7mtrr_v008a.zip [5] ext2fs driver from hobbes.nmsu.edu [6] SoundBlaster Live! OS/2 Audio driver version 0.81, sbliveos2- 081b.zip [7] Graphic driver SciTech SNAP Graphics for OS/2, 01r1064.exe from Hobbes OS/2 archive or as trial version from scitechsoft.com. Serenity Systems licensed OS/2 at the end of 2000 and distribute the operating system under the product name eComStation. IBM has released in March 2005 the news to guarantee the payed support of OS/2 for registered customers until 12-31-2006 and the ending of the sale of OS/2 products on 12-23-05. After this dates no further support of OS/2 is planned. The number of OS/2 installations was estimated to 500,000 in 2004. Field of Application A few small firms, customers Communications and transaction server in the banks and insurance branch Other existing important big firms 1988 - OS/2 1.1 16-Bit, with (PM) 1989 - OS/2 1.2 16-bit for the first HPFS in, improved Presentation manager 1991 - OS/2 1.3 16-bit 1992 March - OS/2 2.0 new design, optimized Presentation Manager, protected memory area, up to 240 simultaneous DOS Sessions possible, 32-bit, high compatibility to OS/2 1.x applications, DOS 2.x - 5.x, Windows 2.x - 3.x, "Cut and Paste", new (WPS), supports LAN Server 2.0, extended Services 2.0 1994 Jan. - OS/2 2.1 Graphic subsystem optimized, dual DOS-sessions, APM and PCMCIA support 1994 Oct. - OS/2 Warp 3.0 networkable, P2P 1996 - OS/2 Warp Server Combination of Warp 3.0 aIBM's LAN Server 4.0, server services, remote login 1996 Oct. - OS/2 Warp 4.0 (merlin) Integration of the pentium III instructions, improved Plug and Play and multimedia, includes Java and VoiceType technology, universally network client 1999 - OS/2 Warp 4.5, bootable cd-rom, new 32-bit TCP/IP stack, JFS 2000 - Version 4.51 version which is completely improved and revised of version 4, "Convenience Pak 1" 2002 - Version 4.52, "Convenience Pak 2", new functions and bug fixes 1999 - Warp Server 4.5 (Aurora) for e- Business, Netfinity Manager, Java 1.1.6 JDK, new 32-bit kernel, SMP for up to 64 CPUs, JFS (64 bit Journaling ), optimized TCP/IP protocol. Download os 2 warp 4 iso. Thanks to James Perih for the screen shots! The OS/2 operating system was originally developed as a combined effort between Microsoft and IBM. After OS/2 Version 1.3 Microsoft and IBM split up. Microsoft went on to create Windows NT and IBM re-wrote OS/2 to produce version 2.0 and later versions. OS/2 Warp 4 was released on September 25, 1996. While this was quite a while ago, IBM and others still release patches, fixes, and add-ons to OS/2 Warp 4 to keep it up to date. More recently, in 1999, IBM released "OS/2 Warp Server for E-Business", a newer more advanced version of OS/2 (but intended for servers, not client PCs). The OS/2 Warp 4 Boot screen. This is the OS/2 Warp 4 desktop. Like many desktops you can store files and folders right on the desktop. The icons shown above are the standard icons placed on the OS/2 desktop. The OS/2 System folder, when opened, contains options and tools used for configuring and managing OS/2. The Assistance Center folder contains files and Internet links to information relating to the use of OS/2. Connections contains local drives, printers, the local network connections, and internet connections. The Programs Folder opens an icon view of programs that are installed on the system. WebExplorer is a basic web browser that ships with OS/2 Warp 4. The shredder is used for deleting files, however unlike a Trash or Recycle Bin icon, the shredder immediately deletes the file and does not store a copy for retrieval later. Oddly the right mouse button is used for dragging icons by default, rather than the left mouse button. This behavior can be changed. The Window List displays a list of open windows that you can select. In Os/2 minimized windows DISAPPEAR instead of float to the bottom of the screen by default and you would need to use the Window List to retrieve it. The OS/2 desktop can also create shortcuts to items, except here they are referred to as "shadows" (and are actually more advanced, more like MacOS aliases). A typical Warp 4 tabbed dialog box. Each tab may have more than one page. Interestingly there is no "ok" or "apply" button. Settings are saved when the dialog box window closes. Folder windows may be viewed as icons, a view of other folders, or as a detailed list of files. In this example the connections folder is being viewed as a tree. OS/2 Warp 4 OS/2 Warp 4.52. OS/2 Warp 4 incorporated a number of new technologies over OS/2 Warp 3, such as Java, OpenGL, OpenDoc, and VoiceType. It also updated the appearance of the Workplace Shell. Release notes. 4.52 was the last release from IBM. Later versions of this OS are available from Serenity Systems under the name eComstation. These are full install media that basically include all Warp 4 fixes at the time of release. IBM referred to these CDs as "OS/2 Convenience Pack" Download os 2 warp 4 iso. Last Updated on: 28th February 2020, 01:26 pm. OS/2 – a proprietary operating system, started in 1985 by IBM and Microsoft with a name of “CP/DOS”. Originally, OS/2 was expected to gradually replace DOS and Windows. In the summer of 1990, Microsoft announced Windows 3.0 and it became a monster hit. The relationship between IBM and Microsoft was already strained, and further development of OS/2 was left entirely to IBM. Microsoft went on to develop NT, enhance Windows, and produce Windows 95. Eventually, IBM figured out what was wrong and fixed it. OS/2 2.0 and 2.1 used 386 , ran almost all DOS programs, and ran most Windows applications as well. IBM now supports clone computers, and has largely abandoned its PS/2 Microchannel family for the same PCI, ISA, IDE, SVGA architecture everyone else uses. In the fall of 1994, IBM released Warp (OS/2 3.0) and made its last big marketing push for OS/2. IBM had a product out ten months before Windows 95 would be released. OS/2 was technically a better system than Windows 95 would be, with real program integrity, priorities, and server-quality I/O. None of this was discussed in any of the IBM ads or announcements. Instead, IBM concentrated on a “one button connection to the Internet” through IBM’s expensive public network. It would be six months before IBM released a version of Warp for corporate and campus use (with LAN support) and IBM never succeeded in capturing market share for Warp among home computer users. Application programs could not interfere with themselves or with each other. The system could natively use larger amounts of memory. Yet the system maintained the command language and file structure of DOS. Each OS/2 program runs in its own address space. It is common to talk about the old 16-bit programs and the newer 32-bit programs, but OS/2 does not separate the two or treat them differently. More accurately, OS/2 assumes that each of its applications may have a mixture of 16-bit and 32-bit pieces. OS/2 is itself a hybrid system with mixtures of both types of code. OS/2 recognizes when a program has been constructed using the old 16-bit tools (producing variable sized segments) or with the new 32-bit tools (providing 4K pages). The different EXE file structure changes the way that the program is loaded into memory. Once they start running, however, all modules get the same services and all are assumed to have both 16 and 32-bit components. Native OS/2 programs open files, request storage, or load programs by calling standard system routines. These routines are packaged in the same sort of Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) that are used in Windows. There are 16-bit and 32-bit libraries with versions of all the standard system services, and a program can choose which to call. The Workplace Shell (WPS) was introduced in OS/2 2.0. WPS is an object-oriented shell allowing the user to perform traditional computing tasks such as accessing files, printers, launching legacy programs, and advanced object oriented tasks using built-in and third-party application objects that extended the shell in an integrated fashion not available on any other mainstream operating system. The last version of OS/2 4.52 was released in 2001. The project was re-branded to ArcaOS and is under development by Arca Noae. OS/2 Warp 4 OS/2 Warp 4.0. OS/2 Warp 4 incorporated a number of new technologies over OS/2 Warp 3, such as Java, OpenGL, OpenDoc, and VoiceType. It also updated the appearance of the Workplace Shell. Screenshots. Release notes. OS/2 Warp 4.0 requires a boot disk to start up for setup. Boot disk is provided in the download. Installation instructions. Boot your computer or emulator using the Installation diskette. It will ask you to swap disks until the machine is booted into the setup program. Installation is fairly straightforward and will work in any modern emulator. In addition, this OS will run on anything newer than a 486 up until a P4. Reference the requirements on the side for recommended requirements. Note: XDF floppy images require a special tool to create. They do not work with USB floppy drives, and are not compatible with generic DOS/Windows.