offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Sun Jan 6 21:57:49 CST 2008


On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, madodel wrote:
> I've been using OS/2 since version 1.3.  I'm fairly well acquainted with
> its capabilities.  Yes I can be wrong and maybe you saw what you think you
> saw, but all you have is a story.  Where is your proof other then that you
> think you saw it was OS/2?   I can't prove a negative, but you should be
> able to prove that it did happen.

You're certainly welcome to doubt whether he was right, and/or think that
he was mistaken.  But we rarely put up a "burden of proof".

> but never at an OS/2 prompt.  And as I also posted, if the original ATM
> code programmer had known what they were doing then the program itself
> should have been set as the shell, so no command prompt should have ever
> been attainable.

"IF . . .  had known what they were doing"
I don't doubt that you could write some extraordinarily robust code.

But, do you assert that Diebold knows what they are doing?

--
Grumpy Ol' Fred


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