<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>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."</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner@dsservices.com><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, December 10, 2015 2:54:25 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Fwd: Donald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates to "close up" the internet<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">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!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><div><div style="border: none; border-top: solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt; padding: 3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;" data-mce-style="border: none; border-top: solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt; padding: 3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>DjPfulio<br> <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 10, 2015 1:42 PM<br> <b>To:</b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] Fwd: Donald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates to "close up" the internet</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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. <br> <br> Should also say, that I dictated this reply through Android.</p></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo<br></blockquote></div></div></body></html>