[ale] Fwd: Donald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates to "close up" the internet

[Chris Fowler]

I was working on a new F30 or F40 RS/6000 running AIX. I had a book and dropped from 2" onto the server. I was just laying the book on top, but dropped it. Paperback, maybe 1" thick. 

Got 888 on LED display. I was able to repeat this. IBM tech came by, repeated it, and had no clue. Said "don't do that again." 

> From: "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at dsservices.com>
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 2:54:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] Fwd: Donald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates to "close up"
> the internet

> This all reminds me that at about the same time I saw OS/2 I’d had to work on an
> AIX install. That was my first time working on AIX as compared with AT&T, SCO
> and various other UNIX OSes and again I was not impressed by AIX. I was sitting
> in a meeting with our largest customer who had specified IBM PS/2 hardware. We
> were testing serial port concentrators from Digiboard and during the test we
> got on the subject of IBM hardware. I told them I’d worked on IBM hardware from
> back in the old IBM System 34 days, through the IBM PC days and now IBM PS/2
> and always though IBM made the best hardware. I then said based on OS/2 and AIX
> I thought IBM shouldn’t be allowed to make operating systems. Everyone turned
> around and looked at a guy and asked for his thoughts. Unbeknownst to me this
> guy was not the client but rather their IBM contact. D’oh!

> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of DjPfulio
> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 1:42 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Fwd: Donald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates to "close up"
> the internet

> By the time windows 3.1 came around os/2 had already lost the battle. Windows
> 3.0 wasn't slow on 4 mb of RAM. OS/2, required 8 mb of RAM to run as well. At
> the time, 8 mb of RAM in a system added $650 to the cost. I know this because I
> paid it.

> BTW, I was part of Team os/2 and an IBM subcontractor. Version 1.x of OS/2
> wasn't a joke but it wasn't very useful either. Version 2 of OS/2 was solid but
> slow. Version 2.1 added a little speed but not enough. By warp v3, they made it
> able to install into 4 MB of RAM but it was still significantly slower than MS
> Windows on 4mb systems. With 8 megabytes of RAM warp was fantastic, but few pcs
> were shipping w/ 8mb ram.

> Recall these were the days of 16 bit programs and os/2 was all 32 bit. For
> programmers, there is pain in changing from 16 bit to 32 bit to 64 bit.

> By 1994 I already picked up UNIX/ Linux but still ran OS/2 for a desktop. Os/2
> was by far the best software development environment for MS DOS.

> In August 1995, windows 95 truly did change the world, for pcs. I remember
> clearly the leap forward in user interface design, because we were a reference
> site where I worked.

> Should also say, that I dictated this reply through Android.

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