[rescue] A Question about Snap Servers
    Charles Shannon Hendrix 
    shannon at widomaker.com
       
    Sat Aug  7 22:29:19 CDT 2004
    
    
  
Mon, 02 Aug 2004 @ 11:34 -0400, Ethan O'Toole said:
> > Why do you think it wasn't? The BIOS couldn't find a boot device...
> 
> 8 megs of RAM on what was probably a 386... it might be OS/2 in text mode?
Unlike the fiasco that is NT, OS/2 was much more modular.
A college buddy of mine worked for a bit in Boca Raton, and they had
some really neat custom OS/2 kernels for various tasks.
The engineers thought the OS/2 released for desktop use was horribly
bloated... :)
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