Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Fri Nov 18 10:43:37 CST 2011
A little bit, but as you said, there weren't a lot of apps for it to write about, so I wrote about the launch party at Bletchley and then the split between MS and IBM on the project; stuff like that. Given the time and place, I liked the OS itself, but there's only so much I can do with an OS and an assembler. /A. On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > Hi Arthur > > In the early 90s I had the "pleasure" of writing for the local PR agency > that was responsible for the Danish version of the IBM Helpware Magazine. > As such I had to run OS/2 on my 486 pc with 16 MB of RAM to test different > things. I liked OS/2 except that no applications were at hand and it had > some corners. First at the later Warp version it became polished. > The task was a nightmare as the British PR agency responsible for Europe > supplied the articles and these were loaded with errors I just couldn't > ignore should the magazine be of any help for the common user. Thus, I > often faced a rewrite rather than a translation. > > I have never touched OS/2 since then except for one client who ran an OS/2 > server - which basically was the Lan Manager server OS. The server was > later replaced with an NT Server when version 3.5 came out. > > Did you write about OS/2? > > /gustav > > > >>> fuller.artful at gmail.com 18-11-2011 15:33 >>> > My first box was purchased on March 15, 1983. It was a Unitron, a clone of > the Apple II. It came with Apple SOS and a CP/M card containing 48K of RAM. > First thing I bought was a 16K expansion card. I used to run WordStar, > Supercalc and dBASE II on it. It took about a month to become skilled at > dBASE II and from then on I've been hooked on databases. > > Speaking of OS/2, at that time I was a freelance journalist working for > several magazines, writing mostly software reviews etc. IBM flew a bunch of > journalists to Bletchley Park to unveil OS/2. Bletchley park initially > became famous as the place where they cracked the Enigma machine. > > A. > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > > > Hi Arthur > > > > I'll share a part of my memory that for some unknown reason popped > forward > > the other day: > > > > Do you remember the time when OS/2 was moving ahead, that a major issue > to > > discuss was if it would be able to launch in a machine equipped with 4 MB > > of RAM? > > I don't recall what made 4 MB a magic number but today, where 4 GB is > > standard in main-level machines, it is hard to imagine that this > parameter > > could get any attention at all. > > Perhaps it was cost - I guess 1 MB of RAM at those days equals 4 GB > today. > > Didn't Compaq manufacture a full-length(!) add-in board with 3 MB > extended > > RAM? At a fortune. > > > > /gustav > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Cell: 647.710.1314 Thirty spokes converge on a hub but it's the emptiness that makes a wheel work -- from the Daodejing