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One of the features of OS/2 was it could act as a terminal controller. One day people started having problems with their terminals. Response times were gettin
by AstroJetson 2y ago
One of the features of OS/2 was it could act as a terminal controller. One day people started having problems with their terminals. Response times were getting slower and slower and finally they ground to a halt.
From across the cube farm there was an "oh no" Turns out that our co-worker didn't attach to the dev system, he attached to the production environment. As users detached sessions and reconnected, they connected to his desktop. As his desktop got more and more sessions, they got slower and slower.
Lucky for him it was only our building, the main phone center wasn't involved.
Still think of you buddy, one of my favorite "back in the day" stories.