From: Lee Laniear (laniear_at_attglobal.net)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 18:37:10 EDT
Allan,
I'm with you on that, I miss being able to use it everyday in my work. This machine still run OS/2 about 95%
of the time but it's use in "work" has diminished. I haven't had real problems with with NT or windoze 2000,
on my other workstations, but it's not the same. On the other hand my Warp Server for e-Business, formerly
Warp Server v3, and before that v2, has just run and run and run. I have an IIS server that got a virus after I
set it up and went to lunch. My windoze 2000 server has "come and gone" several times.
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:16:33 -0400, Allan J. Ballard wrote:
>I sure miss OS/2.
>
>Do you know if anybody sells a CD with all the fixpaks, drivers,
>etc on it so an install would not require a bunch of sleuthing?
>
>My Warp pc never went down - until the hard drive failed. Yikes.
>
>NT is ok, but it does lock now and again. Right now the desktop
>icons are glued in place. No idea how that happened or how to
>unglue them.
>
>Never had a virus on an OS/2 machine; never heard of one either.
>
>I always thought the bad guys were too busy to fool with it. That is
>an industrial strength OS, for sure.
>
>Allan
>(sorry to meander off topic)
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <letoured_at_together.net>
>To: "ThinkPad Mail List" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 7:44 AM
>Subject: Re: [OT] Viruses under OS/2
>
>
>> In <200210150415.AAA26031_at_cs.utk.edu>, on 10/14/02
>> at 09:14 PM, "Lee Laniear" <laniear_at_attglobal.net> said:
>>
>> >Mike,
>>
>> >Even if it were true that a "Micro$oft" virus couldn't affect an OS/2
>system
>> >there are, as you know, other viruses (viri) in existence. The
>instances
>> >of OS/2 systems being affected by a viruses is rare but it happens. I
>know
>> >of two people who have had that happen.
>>
>>
>> Jumping in here, and not wanting to start a pissing match but; There was a
>lot
>> of discussion about this a year or so back in a news group -- the only
>known
>> OS2 virus that has ever existed -- was one that was created for test
>purposes
>> -- to prove it could be done. It never escaped the test lab that created
>it.
>>
>> Whatever the people you know experienced is something else. I for one
>would
>> want to see proof and hear it from a responsible source, who verified
>it --
>> before I believed it was an OS2 virus.
>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
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