Text 201, 55 rader
Skriven 2005-01-25 12:06:27 av Roy J. Tellason (1:270/615.0)
    Kommentar till text 187 av August Abolins (1:229/390)
Ärende: USB and parallel
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August Abolins wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 AA> Hi Roy (of 1:270/615),
 AA> On Thu, 20 Jan 05 at 12:26 o'clock, you wrote me:

 AA>> I still want to port over some files from my old OS/2 2.1
 AA>> system to another pc for safe storage.

 RJT> That could be a problem with 2.1.  Why I have a still unopened copy
 RJT> of Warp 3 here.  It's the networking stuff that's an important issue
 RJT> with me,  and one of the reasons I started with Warp Connect in the
 RJT> first place.

 AA> I was able to move a few files at a time via the parallel cable
 AA> between my Os/2 pc and my WinME pc, no problem.  It would only fail
 AA> if I selected too many files.  So.. I'll be exploring the transfer
 AA> once again when I get a new drive for my WinME pc who's 40gig drive
 AA> is already 75% full.

 AA> Warp 3 Connect came into the market several years after I was
 AA> already using OS/2 2.1 on my own pc at home.  I heard about OS/2
 AA> when 1.3 and  2.0 were first offered for FREE by IBM.  I almost
 AA> regret not taking up that offer. However, that version had a few
 AA> quirks and limitations. But it sure made positive waves when its
 AA> true multi-threaded multitasking capabilities were realized by the
 AA> public.    I think I paid $150 for OS/2 2.1 back in 1992/3.

I have two copies,  the first one that I got being Warp Connect,  and that's
the one that I played with.  The other one is just Warp 3,  and is still
unopened.  Both are the "blue" versions.

 AA> From one OS/2 journal: "IBM has been winding down its support for
 AA> OS/2, with 2006 being listed as the end of service. It is unclear
 AA> how long Serenity Systems can continue to be proactive with
 AA> eComstation after that, as they do not have access to the IBM
 AA> source code."

It's a damn shame,  really.  They could have given gates a run for his money,
but chose instead to back out of that market entirely.  I get the impression
that they either didn't know just what they were getting into (being geared for
an entirely different kind of support than the consumer market wants/needs) or
that their corporate culture just couldn't cope with it.

 RJT> I have yet to acquire any USB hardware here.  Should be interesting
 RJT> when I do...

 AA> Oh... you need to experience the wonders of a flash/thumb drive. 
 AA> Wonderful (no moving parts) technology!  Love it.

No rush.  Some of the stuff I have here has hardware support,  but I'm not in
any particular hurry to rush out and buy something that needs it.  I have
plenty of ports,  and plenty of stuff that uses them,  in the meantime.

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