Subj : Re: Housekeeping
To   : vorlon
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Apr 11 2023 06:46 am

-=> vorlon wrote to Thom Miller <=-

 > Thanks! It's good to be here.  I also ran my original board on
 > DesqView in the 90s and then made the jump to OS/2. This machine I'm
 > running only has 8 MB of RAM, though. If it'd had 16 MB, I probably
 > would have gone with OS/2 2.x. DesqView is working remarkably well,
 > though.

 vo> OS/2 will run with 8mb of ram... (Used to run it myself back in the
 vo> day. Still have the CD(s).

I ran OS/2 2.x. and had a bear of a time installing it on a PS/2 model
80 with 8 mb of RAM. It'd complain about not having enough memory and
reboot.

I was working in an ALL-IBM shop at the time, the
mainframes, desktops, networks, hubs and servers were all IBM - mostly
because the VP of IT was ex-IBM.

This was the time when IBM sold itself on FUD -  Fear, Uncertainty and
Doubt. "Sure, you could go with Compaq or another brand, but do you
really want to risk not being 100% IBM compatible? If you want
everything to 'just work', buy IBM..."

I was one of the test cases to upgrade to 2.1. My PS/2 had 2MB on the
motherboard and 6 MB on an IBM add-on card. Every time I booted it, it'd
complain about memory. IBM sent a tech out, who verified it. He sent for
another tech, who called another senior tech, who called in a hardware
guy. He fixed it.

Instead of putting the disk in and flipping the power switch, he turned
it on, then right when it beeped, quickly put the disk in.

"Oh, yeah, that happens all the time..."

There was something about how the PS/2s registered add-on memory that
was only recognized after the system POSTed. OS/2 booted and installed
just fine this time, with 5 people standing around.

But, I got to tell the story about how it took 3 IBM techs and me to
boot OS/2.





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