Unread postby hamei » Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:42 am
^^ To be honest, I wouldn't bother. OS/2 v 3 is basically v 2.1 all cleaned up and rationalized. You can't tell the difference running them except that v3 is a hell of a lot easier to install and more capable. Not much point in using 2.1 unless you are a masochist.
Warning Will Robinson ! Danger ! Danger ! Do not try to get the mail client that comes with OS/2 to work. It's a great example of the most obscure, arcane IBM contortionism. That program is evil. The rest of the Bonus Pack is pretty neat. Footprintworks was great, used it a lot.
If you want file sharing, there's also NFS. I used to have it working between an Intellistation and an Indigo so you should be able to connect to your other SGI boxes that way. And XFree works also. Some SGI extensions do not but the basics run fine.
As porter said, Hobbes is your friend. I think someone once did a "here's a kit to make networking go on 2.1" package. But it's still not as good as 3.