Mathematica on OS/2 Symmetrical Multiprocessing (SMP) for v2.11 Guest in VirtualBox 16 CPU/Cores
Giving a spin to Mathematica for OS/2 - Symmetrical Multiprocessing (SMP) for v2.11 with 16 CPU/Cores in VirtualBox 7.0.6 built from source in Metztli Reiser4 / Debian Bullseye backports AMD64. TigerVNC froze multiple times after connecting to the remote headless VirtualBox instance. Accordingly, I had to use Remmina again for a decent VNC connection. Nevertheless, OS/2 v2.11 VM falls back to use the PS2 mouse hardware which causes the mouse position to drift from the real mouse pointer as it is moved in both VNC clients.
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Comment from: Ralf35 [Visitor]
Comment from: Jose [Member]
Niltze [Hello]!
Thank you for your comment. Regarding your first question, i.e., ‘ Would it be possible to get the copy of mathematica somewhere‘, I have no idea.
On your second question, there are still some technical issues to iron out, such as video resolutions available in VirtualBox type 2 hypervisor – where the OS/2 for SMP version 2.11 is being hosted, etc., others.
On the other hand, “we are indebted to Oracle for essentially enabling us to perceive the elusive c. 1995 OS/2 for SMP v2.11, the archetype for subsequent derivations, such as OS/2 Warp and/or Merlin v4 for SMP, OS/2 Server for eBusiness, as well as the last two third-party so-called eCommStation (eCS) and ArcaOS hacks! ‘Big Blue’ could not be more than pleased to license the orphaned OS/2 to third-parties and parasitically reap ensuing royalties without even making a minimum investment in virutalizing the OS/2 boot procedure with the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) Linux virtualization technology used extensively by Red Hat – IBM’s latest acquisition!“
Tlacatecolotl: OS/2 for Symmetrical Multiprocessing(SMP) v2.11 HPFS386 on Headless VirtualBox 7.0.12
In due time, probably, we might offer a virtual machine instance on demand in the cloud and/or otherwise with the Mathematica application available.
Best Regards.
Hi,
nice work. Would it be possible to get the copy of mathematica somewhere or is there a way to try it on your VM?
Best Regards, Ralf