Subj : Re: Pet peeves...
To   : Weatherman
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Nov 26 2022 08:15:00

-=> Weatherman wrote to Atreyu <=-


 We> Me too, and you had to run QEMM to load all DOS drivers into high
 We> memory and get Lotus 123 to use extended memory.  I remember some users
 We> back then having spreadsheets so large that eventually the only option
 We> was to port the data over to Lotus 123 for Windows or Excel.

 We> You had the mouse driver, DOS NIC driver, Novell network driver, etc.
 We> Somehow it all just barely worked.

I got my start in *nix with a company running IBM S/38 and AS/400 midrange 
computers. They had reportwriter software that offloaded the reporting to a 
SCO Xenix box. We used an IBM PS/2 mod 80 with a digiboard and 12 terminals, 
running 1-2-3 for Xenix. Worked pretty well for a time - this was way before 
Windows.

I knew my way around a shell at the time, but the company sent me down to 
Santa Cruz, CA (near where I live now) to a week long class at Santa Cruz 
Operation, where I got to hang out at the beach, party with a fellow 
othernet sysop going to UC Santa Cruz, and generally enjoy the hell out of 
the week. Annoyed the VP of IT when I came back with a tan.


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