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Re: [OM] Longevity of computing devices, was More Memory (OT)

Subject: Re: [OM] Longevity of computing devices, was More Memory (OT)
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:23:59 -0400
I followed your link to another link on the history of OS/2.  Although I 
was in OS/2 development from 1985-95 I was surprised at how much release 
level detail I had forgotten.  The writer has most of it correct. 
There's not much I disagreed with.

Chuck Norcutt

On 9/30/2010 12:02 PM, |-o-| wrote:
> Me<http://www.comkal.net/>
> and<http://www.os2site.com/>
>
> Personally I rotate computers about every 4-5 years
> but then I use OS/2 and AIX, my wife uses Mac's.
>
> My computers then end up in my museum that includes
> my first PC, a DEC Rainbow 100B with a 5Mb harddisk
> and 996K or RAM (modded with a V20 as well as color
> graphics etc).
>
> My outward facing server is OS/2 based because I'm lazy,
> which means I do things so I can set and forget, at least unless
> a problem occurs (called real life ;-))
>
> <http://www.os2site.com/pages/techinfo.html>
>
> Apart from my collections of HP's IBM's, and Apples,
> I roll my own to suit.
>
> Cheers
> Ian Manners
> "That particular mistake will not be repeated.  There are plenty of mistakes 
> left that have not yet been used."   -- Andy Tanenbaum (ast@xxxxxxxx)
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