What the hell is that?

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DenverDon

Edited by - DenverDon on 8/20/2004 1:39:22 PM

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That's great! Thanks, Saki.

You are Apple DOS 3.1
Simple and primitive with a good understanding of the common man. You are still a work in progress, but a good start.

I think I rather like that.

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Saki you pro or home? I don't really like the home version.

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You are tops among your peers, but still get now respect from them. It's alright with you. You have your sights set higher.

What is Red Hat Linux ?

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OS/2 Warp was very impressive, it's a shame that IBM gave up on it. OS/2 was launched in 87 or 88 and took anywhere from 5 - 8 1.44 MB Floppies for the installation program. Oddly, the monthly service pack releases were on 12 - 25 floppies. Keep in mind that a big hard drive in these days was 80MB and CD ROMs weren't around yet.

OS/2 Warp was a later version redesigned to take advantage of the addressing modes and instruction set available in Intel's 386 and newer processors. It was primarily bundled with IBM's PS/2 series of computers for large corporate installations. (It's ironic that the PS/2 failed in the market almost as badly as the PC jr. PS/2s were innovative in that their Microchannel architecture was the inspiration for what eventually became the Plug and Play specification and later the PCI bus.)

Now TRSDOS, more affectionately known as Trash DOS, was a Zilog Z80 based operating system written for Tandy/Radio Shack's TRS-80 series of business computers. I think TRSDOS was launched in 1983 to support 120 KB 12" floppy disks. Prior to this the Radio Shack computers relied on cassette tapes for data storage. I think TRSDOS died around 1988 when Radio Shack killed off the Model 4.

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Edited by - Drew Black on 8/20/2004 4:15:25 PM

edited to add link to TRS80 Model 4 info and OS/2 Warp is still alive!

Edited by - Drew Black on 8/20/2004 4:24:16 PM

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Windows compatibility was a great draw for businesses. Because of a 1985 development agreement between Microsoft and IBM, IBM was allowed (much to MS's chagrin) to ship OS/2 with DOS, and later, Win3.x emulation.

Anyway, because of this relationship between IBM and Microsoft all the way back to the early days of IBM PC's, there are some interesting quotes from Bill Gates regarding OS/2, such as:

The company I work for still has OS/2 deployed in a few places. Using RPL servers and diskless workstations, it's pretty cool to see the Token Ring network go up to 90%+ utilization in the morning when people turn on their workstations--and nobody complains about the network being slow.

- Saki [faqs]

Edited by - saki on 8/20/2004 6:12:12 PM

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I am Red Hat Linux. "You're tops among your peers, but still get no respect from them. It's all right with you. You have your sights set higher."

Today, that actually sounds very insightful.

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Edited by - PL on 8/20/2004 8:53:51 PM

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Currently I have five Macs in the house running respectively Mac OS 7.5, Mac OS 8.6, Mac OS 9.1, Mac OS 10.2 and Mac OS 10.3.

I was actually toying with the idea of installing Linux on one of the older machines...

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Edited by - putt on 8/23/2004 11:21:38 PM

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And Yes, I actually owned an A500 about ten years ago.

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Edited by - TheLoneGunman on 8/26/2004 9:07:51 AM

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