On 04/01/2010 09:47 AM, Jack Stein wrote:
Steve Turner wrote:

The political bickering on the wRec is child's play compared to the OS/2
versus Windows war's in the early to mid nineties on FidoNet ...

Ah yes, the operating system wars. I lived all through the first part
as an outsider, then came into the IBM OS/2 programming center in 1993
right after the divorce. I can still see all the OS/2 source code from
where I'm sitting. sigh

Yes, I was deeply involved in those wars.(Dr. Debug mostly) If you were
in any way, shape or form involved with coding OS/2, my hats off to you.
Windows still hasn't caught up to what OS/2 was way back when....

Yes, there's a wee bit of my code in the operating system here and there, but I worked in
the OS/2 Developer's Toolkit area and most of my contributions were in the development tools
rather than the O/S, and most of those were "Internal Use Only". I wrote the replacement
for Microsoft's "MASM" macro assembler (it was called "ALP"), and that was released in the
Toolkit but it never got much of a foothold. I also have code in the old make utility
(NMAKE), linker (LINK386 and ILINK), and resource compiler (RC). All fun stuff. :-)

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