On Fri August 13 2021 14:57:21 dep wrote: > I have often considered what it would be like to boot and run one of my old > OS/2 installs on my current system. When OS/2 2.0 was released IBM said > that we needed 4 but preferably 8 mb -- not gb, mb -- of memory. And I had > a luxurious 340mb Micropolis hard drive (purchased at the > they-ll-never-be-this-cheap-again price of $650). So it should be possible > to load the entire system into a ramdrive and have, what, 31 gigs of > memory left over. I think it would run pretty quickly. OS/2? That brings back memories. I worked for three months in 1988 on IBM OS/2 networking as relations with Microsoft were starting to head south. The initial objective was that a dentist could buy a box of OS/2 and take it to his office and install and configure it. However IBM had this corporate culture that any senior salesperson could demand a feature in order to (potentially) close a big sale. Meanwhile Microsoft by and large cherry-picked just the most sensible features. My main contribution was a massive sed script - 500 lines, 2000 maybe, I forget - which converted the build makefiles from a couple of dozen DOS boxes to a half dozen boxes running an OS I'm not allowed to name and made it buidl an order of magnitude faster. Meanwhile the networking had gotten so complex that I doubt if even 10% of the developers could install and configure it. --Mike ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
