Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)

[ab528@freenet.carleton.ca (Heinz W. Wiggeshoff)]

"Sami S. Sihvonen" <noco@sunpoint.net> wrote in message
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 I'm a Linux user and advocate, but
>
> I have no mixed feelings, just pure love for big blue IBM. They are
> still one of the major players in computer industry and everybody is
> very interested about what they are doing.

  Just try to order the APL2 product from IBM.  I wasted an afternoon
  then morning of my life getting bounced around the brain-dead
  sales folks there.  They couldn't sell air conditioners in Florida
in
  July!
>
> IBM is still keeping OS/2 on life support, try searching Google with
> the magic words "OS/2 Merlin" for more details.

  Thanks for the tip.  I'm trying to resurrect OS/2 Warp 4 on a
  machine that died because the m/b was upgraded from a
  486 DX-4 to an AMD K<mumble> which seems to choke
  the OS/2 system, but not MS-DOS 6.22/Windows 3.11 .
  Maybe dumber is better - the DOS system can still run
  TRYAPL2.  In fact, I'll bet that my 286 under DOS 5 can
  still run it.  (OK, that's folklorish enuff.)