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Originally Posted by Hitch
Oh, OS/2. How I miss thee....such a shame that it fell by the wayside.
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Back when, Intel released the 80286 CPU, with a Protected mode that gave access to more (16MB per process) memory. Everyone was waiting for the next generation OS that could make use of the new capabilities. Meanwhile, AT systems were simply used as faster DOS machines.
OS/2 was a collaboration between IBM and Microsoft that was supposed to be that new OS. The problem was that MS wanted to bypass the 80286, and develop for the new 80386 CPU. IBM said "No, we promised support for the 286". Microsoft was already developing Windows, and decided to end the partnership. OS/2 Warp was the last release of OS/2, and the nail in the coffin was when IBM declined to add support for 32 bit Windows applications. People use machines to run software, and if it won't run the software they, they don't use it.
You can probably still find some OS/2 in "kiosk" operations. (At one point, the Amtrak ticket machines in Penn Station in NYC were running it.) I had an OS/2 box in my computer room at a former employer, as a front end to a specialized telephony machine. It was rock solid and just ran. If it had a problem, reboot, and it was back where it started.
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It's got me yanking my hair out right now, with some endless BS that is giving me the yips on "printing" font exemplars for clients. Doesn't seem to matter which font manager I use (telling that I have more than a few, eh?); when I try to "print to" Adobe PDF, I either get bizarre Distiller error messages, or I get garbled fonts. Aggravating as sh*t, dam*it.
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Where are the Distiller messages coming from? What are you attempting to print to PDF
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What I use here is an open source application that creates a printer in Windows. Send a job to that printer, and the result is a PDF file. (You can control where the PDF is created.)
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Dennis