Subj : Still using OS/2?
To   : Jean-Claude Dumas
From : Mike Luther
Date : Thu Jul 30 2015 08:02 am

Yes JD!

 JD> Out of curiosity, anyone still using OS/2 for... anything?

 JD> This BBS runs the DOS version of Maximus on OS/2, on a 
 JD> Pentium, on my floor. I still like the OS, as useless 
 JD> as it might have become. :)

Absolutely still solid with OS/2 here.  Have been part of a major group design 
operation still solidly based on OS/2 since even before there was an Internet 
when I was even part of the FidoNet development doggie pack, grin.  I was the 
key part to the creation of 'private' telephone numbers for FidoNet as I was 
the creator of the original underground telephone lines that might survive the 
Russian whop on the US back in the days of the Cold War.  So that if Net 117 
here in College Station, Texas and Texas A&M College got hit I could still show 
folks how buried phone service could be bridged to even ham radio sites miles 
away where it was abolutely able to merge the data even to CW and other digital 
HF and VHF bands.  I proved in the ARRL Field Day contests that this whole 
technique could even be used back then to even move encrypted HF digital 
signals, for example, from here even to Perth, Australia and even be shared 
with reception data for thousands of needed receptors at the right time of the 
day or night with even only a few hundred watts or less power.  I even still 
have the US ARRL's letter thanking me as W5WQN for the contribution to 
humanity.

Right or wrong, I've got about 16 actual nodes, mostly private, to update every 
week still for the FidoNet Nodelist update.  And I'm still hugely required to 
support massive over one and a half million lines of my own source code which 
is absolutely main-pointed to OS/2.  I will note that the focus here which is 
on the old OS/2 source level code is far better useable on the much later Warp 
4.5 level code.  However you absolutely must be of focus to a huge amount of 
updated device driver and other support that now is heavilyu related to even 
ECS stuff.  I absolutely understand how most folks that are BBS oriented or 
such would be very much lower in the factoids and heavy IT and 
telecommunications technology skills level of today to keep up with even OS/2 
at this time.

And everything is getting worse and worse as man in the middle and nasty 
actvity keeps romping higher and higher on all humanity that really poses a 
problem for all us humans.  But still I try to carry all of us up even in 
FidoNet for as long as I can look upward into the heavans and do what I think 
is the real purpose of all humanity,


Mike Luther as N117C at 1:117/100


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