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from: `Mark D. Overholser`
date: 2004-12-15 10:49:18
subject: Re: It`s far from easy!

Mike O'Connor wrote:

> Mark D. Overholser wrote:
> 
> 
>>Mike O'Connor wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Mark D. Overholser wrote:
>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>>You remember that you can't believe "everything"
you read on the 
>>>>Internet, but, see the "Technology" section of this link:
>>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2>
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>
>>>Hi Mark,
>>>That wikipedia link was interesting - particularly was interested to 
>>>read the three page article from July 2004 on OS/2 by Peter Moylan as 
>>>linked from http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/os2/concepts.html>
>>>
>>That just happened to be a link returned by a Google Search, that 
>>included info on what I remembered..  It was a great read about OS/2, 
>>and seems to be up to date, including eCS 1.2!! ;)
>>
>>After 13 plus years of OS/2 and 23 years of computers, I don't always 
>>remember where I read something...
>>
>>MarkO
>> 
>>
> 
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Yes I read and saved all the pages complete, and noticed the 1.2 
> reference - obviously updated more recently than 23 July 2004!
> Some good information in there for programmers too - and some myths 
> about 16-bit drivers dispelled also.
> You must have started running 2.10 almost coincidentally with my own 
> OS/2 ownership [used 1.2/1.3 at work with the Weather Bureau]!
> 

The company I worked for in 1993 had a Beta of OS/2 2.1.  When it became 
GA, I bought a copy for myself.  It was a great system, compared to 
Windows 3.1....

OS/2 1.2/1.3 systems were the "Work Horses" of many businesses, stable 
and reliable...

MarkO



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