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I worked in a college computer lab with PS/2 systems that had OS/2 1.X on them with the option of booting up PC-DOS as well. After that I worked at a tools com
by orionblastar 11y ago
I worked in a college computer lab with PS/2 systems that had OS/2 1.X on them with the option of booting up PC-DOS as well.
After that I worked at a tools company that had OS/2 2.X systems on PS/2 systems and we upgraded them with Kingston Microchannel cards that added more RAM and used IDE hard drives. Using Client Access/400 for DOS/Windows ate up the 640K of DOS RAM, but in OS/2 it used the memory above 640K so more of it was free. It was the AS/400 client software that we needed to access DB2 databases and other things. We also used Token Ring and was a big IBM shop. Until management decided to switch to MS-DOS 6.X and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 with MS-Office 4.3 to get everyone on it standardized because they got a bulk discount from 800 Software. The IBM PS/2 systems got replaced with Compaq and Gateway 2000 systems that were cheaper. We also used Windows NT 3.1 and switched to Windows 95. I was downsized in 1995 before the Windows 95 roll-outs.
But I had OS/2 experience that got me a lot of job interviews, like Enterprise Rent-A-Car used OS/2 and I almost got hired there. OS/2 was phased out and in 1995 I couldn't get OS/2 3.0 Warp working with my 486DX PC clone so I got Slackware Linux instead. OS/2 3.0 Warp lacked driver support for certain hardware and that was the downfall of OS/2 from 1995 and on.
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- protomyth 11y agoClient Access is probably the single piece of software that has caused the most alcohol to be consumed.
- orionblastar 11y agoI used to have to manage memory in MS-DOS for CA/400 for DOS, Netware client, and MS LAN Manager. Things got easier with MS-DOS 6.X and memmaker but MS-DOS 5.0 I had to managee upper memory by hand. I had to configure adapter card ROM memory to fit into the same 64K C000 block so that there was 64K free D000 for an upper block to more the network drivers into to keep more conventional memory free.