Re: Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Prowler on Mon Jul 29 2024 09:48 am
PF> I was all-in for quite some time. Worked with OS/2 1.2 and 1.3 in a IBM
PF> AS/400 and Lan Manager environment, then 2.0, then Warp 3 working with
PF> Netware - and then Windows NT 3.51 came out and it just *worked*.
PF> Ran the BBS under OS/2 Warp 3 for a couple of years, loved that I could
PF> have a mailer, busy BBS and all the utilities running in an OS/2 console
PF> in the background of my desktop and not even notice it was there.
I feel like I may have missed the heyday of OS/2, which seems to have been the e
arly 90s. My first computer, in 1992, was a hand-me-down 286 and I wasn't old e
nough to get a job yet - and I didn't get my first job until 1996, so in the mea
ntime I don't think I had a PC that was really up to running OS/2. Before I got
my first job and bought my own parts for a new PC, the fastest PC I had was a 3
86DX-40, which I think could have ran OS/2, but I don't think I had enough RAM (
I think I had 4MB max at the time) and maybe not enough hard drive space either.
Around 1994 or 1995, I bought a used copy of OS/2 Warp 3 at a used software stor
e in my area (before they closed, I think due to legal reasons), and it was on f
loppies, and many of the floppies were bad.. Later (1996 or 1997), I bought a n
ew sealed copy of OS/2 Warp 4 from my local Egghead Software (and I wondered if
spending the $120 on it would be worth it), and I had my PC in a dual-boot setup
with that and Windows for a little while. I think one of the things I tried th
at I thought was really cool was using Ray Gwinn's SIO driver for OS/2 to make m
y DOS-based RemoteAccess telnettable. But I only did that as an experiment; I c
ontinued running my DOS BBS in DOS/Desqview (and later Windows).
Nightfox
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