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echo: osdebate
to: Robert Comer
from: Gary Britt
date: 2006-11-28 23:02:48
subject: Re: The puppet master of SCO revealed

From: Gary Britt 

Did you tell them or just say it was your magic?

Gary

Robert Comer wrote:
> I did something like that too for OS/2 2.1.  We had a PC running DOS that
> drove ,via SCSI, a high end postscript ink jet printer.  It could rip the
> job as one job, that actually print it as the next job under DOS.  Crashed
> all the time too.  Well, I converted it to OS/2 and then it could rip one
> job and print another at the same time, while downloading the next
> postscript file at the same time, all in separate automated DOS sessions.
> It never crashed after that.
>
> About 2 years after I left that company, they called and asked me how I did
> that.  Seems my replacement tried to replace it with Win95. 
>

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