Re: The Magic Box

["Robin Sapiro" <robin.sapiro@xxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: The Magic Box


>
>
> nina jones wrote:
>
> SNIP...
>
> <...os/2 for example. SNIP...  the os/2 warp,>
>
> Do most of you folks realize that the MAJORITY of ATM run on OS/2 - "
backbones",
> or so I've heard ?? !!!
>
> And EVEN though MS has hired away the VMS core team to do the
"next/latest" rev
> of NT (wow - what cutting edge technology... although at LEAST MS will get
some
> folks that understand an OS...) the HEART of the "current" NT is STILL
OS/2 !!
>
> Last year we were loading NT Workstation 4.0 on a notebook. Loaded OK but
> "croaked" when installing/configuring a PCMCIA card and "low and behold"
it
> starts "belching" OS/2 error messages !!!!!

Try booting your NT machine with a non bootable diskette and see what
message you get? :-)
>
> And this, coming from me, typing away on my Toshiba notebook running NT...
:-)
>
> Chuck
>
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