No fancy designs, no fancy colors. All business. The tri-color IBM (or lenovo) logo and the red stickpin against the black bacground are the trademarks of the beast. Leave it alone!
Two men say they're Jesus.
One of 'em must be wrong.
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Install OS/2 2.x from floppies. After mindlessly inserting 20 floppies to install the OS, we're now installing printer driver from disk 23 of set. I raach down to press eject button...and hit power switch instead. Somehow the printer driver disk gets corrupted and the driver install never completes. install from floppy truly does suck hard.
Ordinary decent people are sick and tired of being told that ordinary decent people are fed up with being sick and tired. Well I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told I am!
But people AREN'T demanding it. It's being foisted upon them. Nobody is DEMANDING that windows-xp is to be delivered on all new peecees except Microsoft.
Get over it. The Windows key is a microsoft extension of the standard keyboard.
IBM is clearly moving away from the Wintel duopoly. It is not in IBM's best interest to promote Windows by supporting microsoft-specific extensions to the keyboard.
OS/2 began life as a joint venture between MS and IBM. IBM's fork became the OS/2 2.0 -> Warp series. MS's form became the Windows NT -> 2K -> XP series.
The marketing "push" (if you can call it that) for IBM OS/2 didn't hasten Win95; the lead-time for Win95 pushed IBM to get OS/2 2.0 out first.
At least that's how I remember it. At the time, I was more interested in OS/2 than in windows.
The equipment at our school was a few card punches, a card sorter and an IBM-1401 accounting machine. It was programmed by wiring up a breadboard, inserting it into the side of the machine, then running the data deck through. The typical application was simple columnar reporting, subtotals, etc...
We had a couple of textbooks (COBOL, RPGII) but no "real computer" to work out the textbook exercises. I felt really fortunate to have had the offsite arrangement (sneakernet) on that 370.
Cheers
I started out on an offsite IBM-370. Here's how THAT happened:
I handed off my exercise deck (yep hollerith cards) to my Acct/DP teacher who handed it off to a student 2 classes later. He took the deck home to his dad, who took it to work the next day and submitted it. The kid brought the deck back the 2nd day to my Acct DP teacher, who sat on it till next day when the pile of compiler errors was finally returned to me.
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If you know a computer geek, that's all you need to know!
the working name of Service Pack 3? :-)
which chould push demand for PPC-linux notebooks...from IBM of course!
No fancy designs, no fancy colors. All business. The tri-color IBM (or lenovo) logo and the red stickpin against the black bacground are the trademarks of the beast. Leave it alone!
'nuff said.
Two men say they're Jesus. One of 'em must be wrong.
Install OS/2 2.x from floppies. After mindlessly inserting 20 floppies to install the OS, we're now installing printer driver from disk 23 of set. I raach down to press eject button...and hit power switch instead. Somehow the printer driver disk gets corrupted and the driver install never completes. install from floppy truly does suck hard.
Ordinary decent people are sick and tired of being told that ordinary decent people are fed up with being sick and tired. Well I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told I am!
C'mon, That implementation doesn't require a real brain now does it?
They need someplace to run all that middleware!
Thank you. I'll be here all week. Please tip your waitrons.
exactly what topic could require that much focus?
That's probably 1k of text, 500b of stored but unrecoverable revision text, 4500 bytes of ms-not-quite-xml and the rest is MS-Word formatting crud.
That wasn't software. That was grunge.
its all marketing driven.
But people AREN'T demanding it. It's being foisted upon them. Nobody is DEMANDING that windows-xp is to be delivered on all new peecees except Microsoft.
with Windows as its underpinning, it's still FAR SHORT of going to AS/400.
A hot cup of tea? Maybe something not quite entirely unlike tea would work better?
IBM is clearly moving away from the Wintel duopoly. It is not in IBM's best interest to promote Windows by supporting microsoft-specific extensions to the keyboard.
It was the required program loader for Solitaire!
OS/2 is probably the single most important piece of software ever written (1989?)
OS/2 is dead. (1992)
Bill's schizoid, and the number 2 shill at microsoft.
The marketing "push" (if you can call it that) for IBM OS/2 didn't hasten Win95; the lead-time for Win95 pushed IBM to get OS/2 2.0 out first.
At least that's how I remember it. At the time, I was more interested in OS/2 than in windows.
I think that accounts for most of it.
We had a couple of textbooks (COBOL, RPGII) but no "real computer" to work out the textbook exercises. I felt really fortunate to have had the offsite arrangement (sneakernet) on that 370. Cheers
I handed off my exercise deck (yep hollerith cards) to my Acct/DP teacher who handed it off to a student 2 classes later. He took the deck home to his dad, who took it to work the next day and submitted it. The kid brought the deck back the 2nd day to my Acct DP teacher, who sat on it till next day when the pile of compiler errors was finally returned to me.
Turnaround time of a 30-second batch job: 4 days.
And I thought I had it good!