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JdeBP

An interesting data point in the HTTP/0.9 and HTTP/1.0 switch-off that is happening. (The #httpd in #djbwares version 10 defaults to not supporting 0.9 and 1.0 unless explicitly switched on. But I am not alone.)

url.town/ is a WWW site with a 1990s WWW directory style.

You won't be able to (directly, without a protocol-upgrading HTTP proxy) use an actual 1990s WWW browser with it, though.

It doesn't speak HTTP 0.9, and it redirects HTTP 1.0 and 1.1 to HTTPS with modern ciphers that 1990s systems will not have.

There were people mooting switching off 0.9 and 1.0 in their servers at least as long ago as 2015.

It's actually happening. But because 0.9 and 1.0 are nowadays nearly 0% of all traffic (according to measurements taken in 2021), few people have noticed.

Except the people who spin up actual pre-HTTP/1.1 WWW browsers and try to use them.

IBM WebExplorer for OS/2 was released in 1994, for example,.

#HTTP#retrocomputing#Caddy
vga256

inexplicably removed from youtube, this has just been recovered with wbm:

ibm hires kate mulgrew/captain janeway in 1994 to promote OS/2 Warp 3 after patrick stewart shits the bed on a paid appearance

it's painful.

#ibm#os2#retroComputing
movq

Made an OS/2 Warp 3-ish theme for my X11 window manager and finally added support for showing application icons in the top left corner.

Unfocused windows have a slightly darker border (unlike in OS/2), which helps me identify which window has focus.

(The WM is keyboard-driven only, hence I left out the minimize/maximize buttons in the right corner.)

#OS2

(Is X11 #RetroComputing yet?)

ltning
Ugliest and most poorly hidden #EasterEgg in #OperatingSystem history? Literally an executable - `\OS2\BITMAPS\AAAAA.EXE` - on the boot drive. CW: your eyes may bleed. Boost to people you don't like.

Don't get me wrong - I really like OS/2. But IBM never really made pretty things, did they?

And the alt text needs to be forced upon y'all in this one:

Short video clip showing a vector drawing of a green field with a road leading past some purple mountains in the background. There's a small blob of water next to the road. There are gradients everywhere: background, mountains, road, water..
The sun is orange (also gradient) with a drop shadow like only late 80s vector drawing software could. Corel Draw maybe? It reads "OS/2 Warp" in the top right corner.

There is an absurdly large metal pole with an even larger white sign full of names printed in a horribly-rendered font (probably System Proportional). The background of the sign is white and, thankfully, not gradient. I suspect this is due to technical limitation, not artistic ones.

#RetroComputing #OS2 #Warp #Ugly #IBM #BigBlue
#bigblue
Ltning
Despite all the things IBM did right with OS/2, there were some absolutely mind-boggling decisions made. Today's example: Using Java (version 1.11 or better, mind you) and a Netscape browser plug-in to install TCP/IP. Other than the chicken-and-egg-problem (which is solved by installing the transport services - NIC and protocol drivers - first), there's the fact that they had a perfectly good software installation framework which ran fine on like 6-8MB of RAM (total!). This variant swaps until my CF card starts sweating with 16MB, and is s-l-o-w!

I mean yeah, great, I get a proper BSD-4.4, 32-bit TCP/IP stack and tools. But it's taken me half a day. Getting the installation files over involved loading packet drivers and using #mTCP in a DOS session. Which works .. surprisingly well. But still .. FixPak43, reboot. MPTS, reboot. Netscape 2.02, reboot. Java 1.18, reboot. Feature Installer plug-in (no reboot). Then, finally, TCP/IP.

All this to have a machine to play with at #Blackvalley.

#OS2 #Retrocomputing #WhyAreYouReadingThis #GoDoSomethingUseful
शून्यता

Puzzled, I asked, "But if you can't run the EtherLink Plus LAN Manager drivers, and you don't supply a LAN Manager driver for your board, how can you say that you support the LAN Manager?"

"I think we mean that we support the LAN Manager kind of like we support Nelson Mandela," he chuckled.

Caveat emptor, Or, mor appropriate for this business, cave canem (beware of the dog). (m m) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1988 #OS2

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