Posts by xebon

BT lab domain grab – 17 years after cheeky chap swiped 'em

Re: Martlesham Heath

Brilliant! :)

UK.gov told to tread carefully with transfer of data sets to NHS Digital

But remember please, Churchill instigated _all_ the planning for 'what would happen after the war was won' and, in the middle of his administration, c.1942-43, got his bods - ministers and civil servants - to work on the education act, as it became, the nhs as it became, and the planning reform laws, as they became. In truth, those are as much his greatest legacies as that other one for which he is customarily celebrated.

Samsung quits desktop PC biz, will stick to all-in-ones and portables

Re: The hand writing on the wall was Korean

ISTR Flex cache and some very well thought-out and designed machines, a tad too expensive for many when compared with mass roll-out stuff.

Where were the bullet holes on OS/2's corpse? Its head ... or foot?

Re: If "OS/3" hadn't have been taken by Unisys...

Indeed; don't remember using Microware on the 6809, only 68008 and 010, and having fun with the BSD-derived compiler. There was a German-based OS/9 software house around this time (1984-5) too... but we preferred Microware's.