-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 18:13, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 16:21 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/16/07 15:55, Mike McCarty wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: >>>> On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote: >>>> >>>>>> Why not install Linux and dosemu? >>>>> On a machine with 16MB? It fills a need I have as is. >>>> It would let you run multiple DOS sessions. >>> I repeat: It fills a need I have as is. I'd need to >> You are sooooo non-geeky. >> >>> put more disc on it, for one thing. >>> >>>> OS/2 is also a *definite* option. >>> Ditto above. >> Really? I recall installing OS/2 3.0 on a 540MB HDD. > > Wow, I remember IBM giving away free upgrades OS/2 v2.0 to previous > large customers of v1.X as it was so horrible to get running and > configured properly. I know this very well. > > A big shipping firm I worked for actually ran OS/2 on the HUB machines > that downloaded and updated the tablets the drivers used when delivering > packages. Once you got it running and didn't change anything it ran > fantastically. Problem was, the embedded OS on the tablets had to be
Warp 3.0 was a really great desktop OS. > updated so often that many (tablets) would become useless during the > re-flashing process. > > It was chased down to OS/2 v1.x (at the time) had horrible handling of > multiple interrupts on "I/O devices" at the same time. In other words, > If the Token Ring card or Parallel Port and the "proprietary tablet > port" all had something to do at the same time, there was a pretty good > chance the "non-interrupt-able" flashing process would choked. It also > came down to the early 386+387 deployment from Intel SUCKED. Would the poor IRQ design inherited from the PC also be responsible? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF1k7IS9HxQb37XmcRApyqAJ9nIr0z1Fq73YAnus9wwttO5hQwegCeKeG/ lpx+ljd3zcqF4o6A1JuR49s= =ows9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
