A new level of geekness
I realized last night I've been a geek for entirely too long and may have reached a level of geekness never before known to mankind.
What brought about this realization was when my nineteen year-old sister-in-law asked "What's OS/2 Warp?". It wasn't so much that she asked the question and that I knew the answer. It was that I was wearing an OS/2 Warp t-shirt which prompted her to ask question.
Yes there are only a certain number of us who can look cool wearing Ray-Ban Aviators, a Members Only Jacket and Parachute pants (at least I'm not wearing the Magnum PI shorty shorts).
Note: For those of you wondering OS/2 Warp was IBM's failed attempt to compete with Microsoft in the Operating System Market back in 1995 and the back t-shirt said: OS/2 Warp: Fast Pane Relief.
...and it was, by many metrics, a far better operating system than Bill Gates ever fielded until WindowsXP. Or so I hear.
Posted by: chris at August 23, 2005 11:05 AMIt as, and had the potential to out MAC the Mavc on the Intel chipset. I finally got rid of it in the box with DR Dos, 5 1/4 floppy drive and Word Perfect 4 when I moved last fall.
Posted by: ptownmatt at August 24, 2005 05:23 PM*blank stare* I am so not a geek.
Posted by: Theresa at August 24, 2005 06:26 PMI was not wondering...I saw the words and realized I probably never needed to know cause I know that if i had one and it broke I'd just mail you and ask you to fix it for me ;)
Posted by: silk at August 25, 2005 11:14 AMOS/2 was a remarkably stable operating system. There are still some mission-critical, way-in-the-back-office systems that still plug and chug with it. However, it was the poster child for the need to have a large user base to keep the OS going. I had to deal with it until about 2002 with some old software. I'm sure that my life was shortened a few years by trying to find hardware drivers that worked in OS/2. Great memories.
Posted by: Justin Thibault at August 29, 2005 12:59 PM
