Murray Lesser wrote in a message to Jack Stein:


JS>I never registered OS/2, didn't know you could?  It's not shareware?

 ML>     You never moved to Warp 4, either.  

Nope, but I'm on the "edge"...  I just deleted my WARP Connect partition,
which was really exactly the same as my WARP 3 partition, and I'm thinking of
installing WARP 4, or possibly a LINUX thing-ee, or possibly just a small,
maintentence set-up with just TSHELL.  

I lost my first HD in about 15 years last week.  A had bought a used 2gig
Seagate and a used 875 Quantam drives several years ago for $50 for the both
of them, and the 2 gig Seagate, which I used solely for backup, had a HDD
controller failure.  I put my very old 400 meg WD drive back in, and it still
works perfect.  All my drives had been Western Digital, and I never lost one
yet.  Anyway, I freed up a partition while I was messing around trying to make 
sure it really was a HDD controler failure (I tend never to believe these
messages, as they are generally wrong, but I guess this time it was correct)

Haven't decided exactly what to put in there yet, WARP 4 doesn't seem to be
too popular with the 486 crowd, of which I'm a proud member...  

 ML> Software
 ML> registration for OS/2 was introduced (AFAIK) with Warp 4. 
 ML> The purpose of such registration seems to be to put you on
 ML> some IBM mailing lists that you otherwise wouldn't be on
 ML> :-(.  It is also the easiest way to kill the dancing
 ML> elephant (another Warp 4 innovation!).  

Amazing what marketing departments can come up with to screw up perfectly fine 
computer systems...

While I have your attention, I was reading one of the IBM propaganda email
thing-ees a week or so ago, they said they had some kind of LINUX do-dad that
would bring LINUX up to par with WINDOWS....  I KNEW IBM would try to kill
Linux:-)

 ML> So, perhaps IBM has dropped the idea. 

I doubt it, they haven't come up with too many good ideas recently.

                                              Jack 
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