On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 18:39 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [...] > > Warp 3.0 was a really great desktop OS.
Yes, it was. I'll completely agree with this. As recently as 2002, I still used OS/2 to operate an IBM 3494 tape robot, with 4 additional storage cabinets, with 4 3490K tape drives in cabinet 1. > > 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? Oh yes. Horrid. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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