[geeks] Re: "Word Processing" != productive use of one's time....

[Ken Hansen]

Uhm, who co-wrote OS/2, and ultimately dropped out of the partnership
because IBM insisted on sticking with 28 support? ;^)

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: <s at avoidant.org>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Re: "Word Processing" != productive use of one's
time....


> I did. I was an OS/2 server admin (in addition to AIX) at a Large
> Financial Firm, and had OS/2 on my desktop as well. Everyone around me
> was running Windows, the AIX and Solaris admins, the mainframe guys,
> 'cept me. I had a version of Groupwise that worked, Netscape for OS/2
> rocked, and so I rotated bugging folks to do my timesheet once a week on
> the windows-only software. I eventually switched to Linux on the desktop
> and GNU utils and stuff on the OS/2 servers. I treated them like unix
> boxes and they behaved like 'em. I had one server there with 18 months
> of uptime.



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