On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:26:41PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/06/08 20:48, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > I remember my 386. It was an IBM PS/2 model 70-A21. It came with the > > then-unherd of 120MB hard drive, MCA bus, and I put 4 MB ram into it, > > running OS/2, IBM Fortran compiler (the reason I bought a computer in > > the first place), WordPerfect 4.?, and AutoCad 11. > > Warp 3 was a wonderful OS. Presentation Manager was *really* slick, > and formatting floppies while downloading a file at 14.4KBps was > something that Win 3.1 could only dream of, and Win93 could only > barely accomplish when the moon was full and the stars in proper > alignment.
I never had Warp 3. I started with version 1.1 on the 386 and kept up with the service packs. I convinced IBM to give me 2.? when I had to get the 486. BTW, those IBM floppies from ~1990 still work. OS/2 was my first OS. I had to learn Dos and Lotus-1-2-3 for school (on their computer), but did everything at home on both computers on OS/2. The 486 came with win 3.1. I only used it for a game that needed it (Harpoon!) while the DOS games ran OK under OS/2 (but better under dos). Once I had a Zip drive, I just installed Win onto the Zip drive (it didn't know it could do it) and booted dos with a floppy. It was certainly a bit of a switch to go from OS/2 to Potato (via a short stint with RH 4-something). > > DOS-based BBSs still mandated you have one PC per modem, but OS/2 > was capable enough to run 6 or 8 modems at full speed. I only had a 2400 modem but eventually move up to a 28.8. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]