On 7/28/19 8:27 AM, sixpack13 wrote:
sixpack13 composed on 2019-07-27 14:24 (UTC):
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And it still supports IBM OS/2, neat, that brings up some good and some bad 
memories.
worked on/with it 25 years ago !
What would be - with respect to Win10 user brainfxxk now- if IBM weren't so 
blind  to give away the market to M$ ?
..

I was one of 5 OS/2 2.0 beta 'Junior Blue Ninjas'.  Extensively involved in that early testing.  Special seating at the big rollout dinner at Interop in Las Vegas.

I recommended AGAINST OS/2 for the company in favor of Windows 3.0 beta (Yes, I was on that too).

The reason was simply networking.  That is the availability of a TCP/IP stack.  IBM was stuffing LU6.2 down my throat and I actually liked it for a FEW things, but I saw the future was all TCP/IP.  At first I worked with the FTP Software stack (and they DID have an OS/2 stack but it worked strangely).  The company forced me to use the Novell stack (it was 'free' to us).  I only had to go to Mountain View twice to teach them what they had to do to really get TCP/IP working and to ease them away for IPX (yuck).

Ah, the early days.  Well earlier than now!

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