Subj : Re: BBSing on CP/M
To   : Dr. What
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Sep 27 2021 07:25:00

-=> Dr. What wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 DW> When it comes to the Fortune 500, the rule is "no one ever got fired
 DW> for going with IBM".  That rule made any other company have a much
 DW> harder time selling to those large companies.

My first corporate job was at a company with an ex-IBM exec in charge of IT, 
and everything we had was IBM, from the token ring networks to the PS/2 PCs, 
to the S38 and AS/400 midrange computers, IBM laser printers... You could do 
it back then.

A few years later, another job went all HP, including one of the weirdest 
systems I'd worked on - an HP/3000 midrange computer running an informix 
database, and Portable Netware running on top of that. Portable Netware 
emulated the Netware core protocols in userspace for desktop PCs, which mde 
it look like a Netware server. They had a document management system that 
used the underlying informix database. When the system crashed you'd need to 
fsck the main file system, roll back the database, and then do another file 
system check on the Netware layer. Down 24 hours or so, with attorneys 
breathing down your back and losing billable hours.

They were HP desktops, printers, switches, and routers.






 pF> A couple of years later, I worked at a company where we had all Mac
 pF> Pluses and Mac SEs. A Lisa running the email system was sitting under
 pF> my desk and made a nice footrest.

 DW> There was an old computer "story" that went like this:
 DW> The Wizard of the Ivory Tower brought a box into the Master's office.
 DW> "Here is a the new computer system that I invented," he said.
 DW> "Management has decreed that it shall be used as a platform for all new
 DW> programs." "Wonderful!" the Master said.  "I shall take it to the data
 DW> center myself." Two weeks later...
 DW> "Where's the print out of my new program," asked the Wizard to the
 DW> Master. The master responded, "It's on the platform in the data
 DW> center."


 DW> ... Curiosity didn't kill the cat. I got 'im with the mower!
 DW> === MultiMail/Linux v0.52
 DW> --- SBBSecho 3.14-Win32
 DW>  * Origin: Diamond Mine Online BBS 21:1/194 bbs.dmine.net:24 (21:1/194)

.... Slow preparation, fast execution
--- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
 * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)

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