Re:OsFree project: OS/2 Replacement
by zwieback on Monday April 20, 2020 @02:16PM
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When I was in university (Fraunhofer, actually) we built a optical metrology machine (CMM) and the SW was based on OS/2 1.2, which had reliable threading and was generally rock solid compared to Windows. Linux was not a thing yet.
After graduating I moved to the US and got my first job due to my OS/2 experience. The company I worked for had a Mac/PC network bridge product (TCP was not a thing on PCs yet) and we were contracted by IBM to write LAN Server for Macintosh, basically the Mac/AppleTalk server for OS/2. Good memories.
Re:OsFree project: OS/2 Replacement
by watersb on Monday April 20, 2020 @10:22PM
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As someone who supported software and Mac/PC networks in the 90s, and someone who has done frontend development since 1995, I have a keen appreciation of the irony here.
After graduating I moved to the US and got my first job due to my OS/2 experience. The company I worked for had a Mac/PC network bridge product (TCP was not a thing on PCs yet) and we were contracted by IBM to write LAN Server for Macintosh, basically the Mac/AppleTalk server for OS/2. Good memories.