Tannins office on OS/2

[Jake the Dog]

having read in the Computers forums that most of Tannin's office network still runs on OS/2 i thought i'd suggest to Tea that she convince Tannin to turn the office into a museum of networking artifacts and products of years gone by. how 'bout it tea, you might even be able to charge an admission fee

 

[Tea]

I'll be the first to admit that Tannin is crazy, Jake, but sometimes he gets it right. Tannin's office setup works damn near perfectly. His OS is bug-free, virus-free, and very, very stable.

His applications are a sort of "best of" collection covering the years from 1985 (Word for DOS) to 2002 (Mozilla 1.2) with a few high points in-between (Describe, Quatro Pro 6.02, Quicken 7.0 for DOS).

His network is indeed arcane. It's a mixture of TCP/IP and NetBIOS (or whatever you are supposed to call the sort of networking that Microsoft (who didn't invent it) call "Windows Networking", and includes ... er ... about seven different operating systems: OS/2 4.5, ECS (AKA OS/2 5.0), Windows NT, Windows 2000 from time to time, Windows 98SE (the crap box and various assorted folders (which will switch over to Linux one day), and the firewall/DCP server which runs a castrated form of Red Hat. Oh, and a lone survivor which runs PC-DOS 6.3 and still does useful work every day.

Yup, he's crazy, but he's crazy like a fox.

 

[Prof.Wizard]

I bet your sale receipts are "printed" on papyrus as well... :mrgrn:

 

[Buck]

No, they're etched in clay tablets.

 

[Tea]

Recipts?

 

[Buck]

Recipts?

Queen of the . . . .

 

[Cliptin]

I bet your sale receipts are "printed" on papyrus as well... :mrgrn:

More likely sheep skin. Oz is a tree poor country form what I hear. Sheep on the other hand.....

 

[Will Rickards WT]

Turn his office into a museum?
Rather start a museum with his collection of stuff.
Is there a computing museum (physical place where you can see the stuff working or trying to work)?

 

[Mercutio]

I don't see anything at all wrong with using the stuff that works. That's why I use a text-based mail client, after all.

OS/2 is a functional system. At least as functional as NT4, last I checked (and probably about the same level of driver support on today's hardware).

 

[Jake the Dog]

i didn't see anybody mention that there was anything wrong with it.

 

[Buck]

I don't think there would be anything wrong with it, but Tannin isn't gonna hang around showing people a museum, and I think that Kristi has enough work to day as it is (Tannin doesn't do much).

 

[Tannin]

 

[Tannin]

Just testing my new sig. Guess this thread is as good as any.

 

[Buck]

Nice signature change for both Tea and Tannin.