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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*!!!
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- (smile)