Yes JD!

 JD> Out of curiosity, anyone still using OS/2 for... anything?

 JD> This BBS runs the DOS version of Maximus on OS/2, on a 
 JD> Pentium, on my floor. I still like the OS, as useless 
 JD> as it might have become. :)

Absolutely still solid with OS/2 here.  Have been part of a major group
design operation still solidly based on OS/2 since even before there was an
Internet when I was even part of the FidoNet development doggie pack, grin.
 I was the key part to the creation of 'private' telephone numbers for
FidoNet as I was the creator of the original underground telephone lines
that might survive the Russian whop on the US back in the days of the Cold
War.  So that if Net 117 here in College Station, Texas and Texas A&M
College got hit I could still show folks how buried phone service could be
bridged to even ham radio sites miles away where it was abolutely able to
merge the data even to CW and other digital HF and VHF bands.  I proved in
the ARRL Field Day contests that this whole technique could even be used
back then to even move encrypted HF digital signals, for example, from here
even to Perth, Australia and even be shared with reception data for
thousands of needed receptors at the right time of the day or night with
even only a few hundred watts or less power.  I even still have the US
ARRL's letter thanking me as W5WQN for the contribution to humanity.

Right or wrong, I've got about 16 actual nodes, mostly private, to update
every week still for the FidoNet Nodelist update.  And I'm still hugely
required to support massive over one and a half million lines of my own
source code which is absolutely main-pointed to OS/2.  I will note that the
focus here which is on the old OS/2 source level code is far better useable
on the much later Warp 4.5 level code.  However you absolutely must be of
focus to a huge amount of updated device driver and other support that now
is heavilyu related to even ECS stuff.  I absolutely understand how most
folks that are BBS oriented or such would be very much lower in the
factoids and heavy IT and telecommunications technology skills level of
today to keep up with even OS/2 at this time.

And everything is getting worse and worse as man in the middle and nasty
actvity keeps romping higher and higher on all humanity that really poses a
problem for all us humans.  But still I try to carry all of us up even in
FidoNet for as long as I can look upward into the heavans and do what I
think is the real purpose of all humanity,


Mike Luther as N117C at 1:117/100


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