Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Nov 18 13:03:42 CST 2011
I worked for about two years, 1992 to 1994 supporting an OS2 network, using Token-ring and all backed up with a Lanserver server... Talk about unstable. (Microsoft built the Lanserver and used the technology to build their Lanmanager, which eventually turned into NT...they also built the core of OS2...MS came so close to being busted by IBM in court action.) I had 10 other clients that I was supposed to be supporting but just stayed on that site keeping this 50-user network running. ;-) Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 6:33 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] What got you interested in technology? IT's rich and famous share their memories 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