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I would watch the traffic increase or decrease as I enabled and disabled different serial ports and therefore modems, code which I put it for debugging but it worked great for testing too. Then one night on a Saturday night when I was at work upgrading servers, I got all eight serial ports with 8 modems to work connecting them to eight phone lines on each end. I took me maybe a year, due to me working twelve hour days without spending time to code for the serial card, to write and debug the code. I never expected to get all eight modems working but I wanted to see how many I could get to work. It had to be one the last PCI slit or it would interfere with you plugging in cables for the other PCI cards like video and audio and so forth. Later I found an off brand 8 serial port card that you plugged into a PCI slot in the computer with the serial ports sticking out of the pc.
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It took me a couple of weeks to get three serial ports with three modems (they had to be exactly the same) to work as one as long as there was another computer on the “other side” running OS/2 with the same software with three serial ports and three modems.
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Including the fact that I was IBM’s bulletin board (those things we had before the internet) when I was digging around the edges of what IBM would let us see and I ran into a not fully functional serial port driver code that allowed you, if you were willing the time to debug and flesh out the code, to use multiple modems as if it were one. I could bore people for weeks talking about all the things that I did in OS/2 that I never was able to replicate in any other OS. But Win ’95 was no OS/2 which I could configure each DOS, Win ’32 and OS/2 program’s memory and pretty much every setting you could think of. This was before Windows ’95 which a low end clone as far as looks went with prettier colors. Then I “borrowed” RAM from other computers and installed it and WHOLY S*** BATMAN, OS/2 came ALIVE.
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I went back to work and found a PC (regular intel CPU, not PPC) and installed OS/2 on it. At the end of the demo I asked for a copy of the beta and they handed me a box with about 31 3.5″ “floppies” in it. I fell head over heals in love when I somehow ended up with an invite to see a demo of OS/2 2.0 beta. I looked at what was happening and between the IBM guy and myself we figured it out and I got intrigued by the OS which was supposed to be the next big thing after DOS, which is why is was called OS/2. Some suggested that he come and get me and see if I could help.
I had never seen it before but I was the “PC Guy” for the bank and the guy from IBM was having problems with OS/2 2.1. Note that I started with PCs in 1981 with an Atari 400 (4k of RAM – too little) and then an Atari 800 (8k of RAM – still too little).Īnyway, I worked in Seattle at the time and the bank I worked for had a check sorter that ran OS/2 2.1 for stats and maybe other things. OS/2 was the first operating system that I LOVED.
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I don’t know why the author didn’t use horizontal timelines, which is the normal convention with the length of boxes representing the full lifespan of those platforms. So IMHO the OS DNA flowchart is an interesting idea, but it needs to be executed better. And I find it kind of unforgivable that one of the most significant sharing of DNS is between windows and OS/2 (beyond DOS), which doesn’t get represented at all. To mix it with linux is misleading at best, but even if we allow that the author looses credibility by ignoring the DNA contributions from that lineage into both macos and windows. Ok, I can give you that, but the absence of BSDs is not excusable by the same logic. However, VMS proper has largely been discontinued today, and now stands as more of a legacy relic of a bygone era (much like ArcaOS and OS/2) than a popular OS. Interesting is the inclusion of VMS, however it’s design similarities to Windows NT are well documented. Sure, AmigaOS is a minor exception, given it is still in development, but most of these systems are largely irrelevant today, and didn’t really share their OS DNA outside of their respective brands. Thinks like AmigaOS, Atari TOS, and RiscOS didn’t really become a thing until the late 80’s and early 90’s, and much of their legacy is left dead in the water, with little relevance to modern day technologies. It wasn’t until the 16-bit era that microcomputer OSes became more than a shell for BASIC. Most 8 bit micros ran BASIC, which was both the primary programming language, and the OS. Also, despite their great pioneering work in the hardware field, most 8-bit micro’s didn’t run any sort of significant operating system.
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