OS/2 on a Pi

Greetings. I am new to the world of the Pi and am toying with an idea. I have my reasons for asking (mostly nostalgia), but does anyone have any experience running the old OS/2 Warp operating system on a Pi?

Thanks for any input.

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0 shabaz over 6 years ago

Hi Jeff,

I only used it briefly so I may have forgotten, but I think OS/2 was only available as a binary, to run on x86 chips. The Pi uses a different processor architecture so the binaries won't be compatible, without some translation (which is possible, but can be slow). There's an example here of Windows 98 on Pi, using such a method, hopefully that can help:
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/classic-windows-on-a-35-computer-how-to-fire-up-windows-3-1-95-98-and-xp-on-your-ra…
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0 clem57 over 6 years ago in reply to shabaz

But if you have a Pi 4 with 4 GB ram and QEMU, it will emulate x86. Not expecting it to be fast tho.
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0 clem57 over 6 years ago in reply to shabaz

But if you have a Pi 4 with 4 GB ram and QEMU, it will emulate x86. Not expecting it to be fast tho.
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