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JERRY.OS2
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1992-04-25
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JERRY POURNELLE INSTALLS OS/2 (or Jerry's Big Adventure)
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Jerry will test the hell out of OS/2! First he'll back up his entire
system - "Big Cat", his Cheetah 486/33 which has served as his Main
Machine and Faithful Servent since the *dawn* of 486/33's, in his
own words "it runs fast and clean" (it must have an Adaptec catalytic
drive converter) - onto his Maximum Storage WORM (write once, read
many) drive. Unfortunately, (uh-oh!) he will somewhere along the line
become confused and lose access to his hard drive! He will call his
son Alex (who has a data recovery business, he may not be the best,
but he's "good eough") Alex will throw up his hands in confusion,
he can't figure it out either (that Alex, what a chip off the old
block!) Time to call Perceptive Solutions and have them send someone
over to tweak the Perceptive Solutions HyperStore disk controller,
that must be the problem! The Perceptive Solutions guy shows up and
reseats the controller into its mother board slot, BINGO! Jerry has
his drive back! Drat! He forgot, Big Cat isn't connected to the
Maximum Storage WORM (write once, read many) drive! Time for
LapLink III! There's lots of transfer utilities out there, but he
sure does like LapLink III, its "good enough". He LapLinks his entire
drive from the 486/33 (Big Cat) to his 386/33 (Ingrown Toenail),
and from there he sends it across his Lantastic network (from
Artisoft, he sure does like it! It "Does The Job") onto his wife's
386/25, and from there squirts the data onto the Maximum Storage WORM
(write once, read many) drive. Well, now that "Big Cat" is backed up,
time to install OS/2! He runs the install, and what do you know?
IT WORKS THE FIRST TIME! It's the first time Jerry has *EVER* gotten
though an install in one column!!! He tries to crash it by running 12
concurrent copies of Mrs. Pournelle's Reading Program, and
IT MULTITASKS THEM ALL WITHOUT A PROBLEM!!! Jerry is beside himself
with joy and declares OS/2 *GOOD ENOUGH*!!!
(smile)