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Replying to a message of John Beamish to Geo:

 JB> I know of *one* non-techie person who has a Linux machine.  I know
 JB> several who have Macs and I know loads who have Windows.  (I also
 JB> know of one or two who have have OS/2 ;-) )

One of them would be me?  I have at least one copy of all of the OS/2 versions
I know about from 1.2 up through eCS 1.2R.  Some are even installed and
running,
like the box this BBS is running on.

Found a neat little operation that runs on OS/2 boxes which allows them to
run Windows 32 programs natively.  It's called 'Odin.'  Apparently it's mainly
a
driver (w32k.sys) that provides whatever the programs written for w32 systems
are looking for.  I don't have a lot of W32 apps, but I tried CleanSweep for
W95
on my OS/2 v 4.52 box running Odin and it worked just fine - and the FS I use 
on it is HPFS, apparently the FS used is transparent to CleanSweep.  I don't
know
if the use of this driver makes the machine susceptible to W32 viruses, but
since
my machines are not and will not be connected to the Internet that isn't an
issue.
Yet.

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