I know ... off topic

I worked for IBM in Norad on the ANFSQ-7.  Only 64,000 tubes and 512k of 33
bit word core memory.  And, there was 2 of them.   As a ham, it was great
that the memory unit used 6146w's... That made for a great supply of RF
power tubes.  The Air Conditions could make 20 tons of ice in a day.  That
computer run until 1982.

I was also trained on OS/2 internals/externals.  It took until Windows NT
before Microsoft actually started to get a proper multi-tasking OS.

That  being said, I have not had a BSOD in 24 hours since I cleaned out
every everything and started over.

Mike va3mw

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Alan NV8A <[email protected]> wrote:

> OS/2 lives on in an updated OEM version called eComStation (
> www.ecomstation.com). The license is held by a Texas company, Serenity
> Systems, and marketing is handled by Mensys in the Netherlands (
> www.mensys.nl), which reports that sales are booming.
>
> 73
>
> Alan NV8A
>
>
>
> On 05/26/11 03:14 pm, Jon Maguire wrote:
>
>  I used to work on IBM Supercomputers thru PCs. I often lament the demise
>> of OS/2... true concurrent multitasking, real seperate address spaces
>> per task. Heck, I miss the Motorola 68000 with its linear addressing and
>> no hokey segment:offset Intel architecture. A nice RISC proceessor
>> (PowerPC) with modified Unix (ala AIX) is pretty sweet too.
>>
>
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