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|    Message 976 of 1,530    |
|    Kurt Weiske to Stan Hosdar    |
|    Re: what's classic now?    |
|    01 Jul 21 07:16:00    |
      TZUTC: -0700       MSGID: 918.classicc@1:218/700 254b7ebe       REPLY: 1:229/426 A58A05D3       PID: Synchronet 3.19a-Win32 master/b81540481 May 18 2021 MSC 1928       TID: SBBSecho 3.14-Win32 master/b81540481 May 18 2021 MSC 1928       BBSID: REALITY       CHRS: ASCII 1       -=> Stan Hosdar wrote to Steve C <=-               SH> At work, two years ago, a new CNC showed up..... with OS/2 Warp for a        SH> HMI.... seriously... no one knows os/2 anymore and I didn't even use it        SH> when dabbling in win95, DOS, etc.... so I have had to learn it.               SH> Machine is from 1999.. os/2 is clearly in the classic era of GUI        SH> experimentation... woo drag and drop...              I wonder how many old telephone systems are still running OS/2 somewhere? I        ran into OS/2 well past its sunset, silently running voicemail systems,        which needed a properly multitasking OS.              Nortel systems ran Windows NT 3.5 embedded driving their Callpilot voicemail        systems. Since they ran on their own little network separate from the        outside world it seemed OK.                     ... Destroy -nothing -the most important thing       --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52        * Origin: http://realitycheckbbs.org | tomorrow's retro tech (1:218/700)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 14/0 18/200 30/0 80/1 90/1 102/401 103/1 705       SEEN-BY: 105/81 120/340 123/131 129/305 154/10 214/22 218/0 1 401       SEEN-BY: 218/410 601 700 802 810 840 850 860 221/1 6 226/30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 227/702 229/101 424 426 428 452 700 981 1016 1017 240/1120       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 249/1 206 317 400 261/38 280/464 282/464 1038 292/854       SEEN-BY: 301/0 1 101 113 317/3 322/757 335/364 341/66 342/200 633/280       SEEN-BY: 712/848 920/1 5020/1042 5058/104       PATH: 218/700 301/1 229/426           |
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