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This was an especially interesting read, having lived through using these versions of OS/2 on varying hardware.

I think the unfortunate answer is that two if not three drivers are going to have to be written to support the differing generations. GRADD to satisfy Warp 4 (and 3 w/ FixPack) is probably the easiest and most useful.

The way I see it, if I want to have some Workplace Shell nostalgia, but with modern amenities, I'm ok being limited to at least Warp 3 + FixPack. OS/2 2.1 and 3 are hardly different. A few colors changed for the better, and you gain the application's icon instead of the circle. Warp 3 still has the floating launcher thing introduced in 2.

Having to track down all the FixPacks to make the system work on hardware even slightly newer than what was available when that OS/2 version first shipped is part of the nostalgia. Put a 28.8k modem simulator in there, and we can really party like it's 1994.

Along those lines, if I really want OS/2 version 2 nostalgia, how badly do I want modern amenities like high-res, high-depth graphics? Whereas for OS/2 version 3 or 4 nostalgia, I would like to experience what those might have been like on newer hardware.