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,
