offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11

madodel madodel at ptdprolog.net
Sun Jan 6 22:15:12 CST 2008


Fred Cisin wrote:
> 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?

I can only say that they should and they could, but from what I have read 
on how insecure their voting machines are, I would say that now-a-days they 
have no clue.

Mark


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