Wow!!! Will you apply to the Guinness Book of World Records? ;-)

John ;-)

Douglas A. Taylor wrote:
> At work we have an IBM mainframe -- one of the old-style "big irons" -- that
> has a partition running SUSe Linux. It's pretty interesting to see how
> well they've adapted/ported what's essentially an i386-style operating
> system to the radically different architecture of the mainframe.
>
> Just today, I downloaded DOSBox .62 and compiled it on this beastie.
> Previous versions of DOSBox have compiled OK, but wouldn't run. Well, this
> one ran . . . slowly, but it ran. And guess what was the first program I
> tried out? Why, GEOS, of course, vintage NDO98. And it worked! Very
> slowly, but it worked. I'm going to play with various parameters to see
> how much I can speed it up. For now, though, I'm basking in the warm glow
> of being the first person in the world to run GEOS on an IBM mainframe.

Hehe -- Maybe we could have a distinct category of "1sts" via Geos?

Ray

John Howard wrote:

>Wow!!! Will you apply to the Guinness Book of World Records? ;-)
>
>John ;-)
>
>Douglas A. Taylor wrote:
>> At work we have an IBM mainframe -- one of the old-style "big irons" --
>that
>> has a partition running SUSe Linux. It's pretty interesting to see how
>> well they've adapted/ported what's essentially an i386-style operating
>> system to the radically different architecture of the mainframe.
>>
>> Just today, I downloaded DOSBox .62 and compiled it on this beastie.
>> Previous versions of DOSBox have compiled OK, but wouldn't run. Well, this
>
>> one ran . . . slowly, but it ran. And guess what was the first program I
>> tried out? Why, GEOS, of course, vintage NDO98. And it worked! Very
>> slowly, but it worked. I'm going to play with various parameters to see
>> how much I can speed it up. For now, though, I'm basking in the warm glow
>> of being the first person in the world to run GEOS on an IBM mainframe.

***And guess what was the first program I
tried out? Why, GEOS, of course, vintage NDO98. And it worked! Very
slowly, but it worked. I'm going to play with various parameters to see
how much I can speed it up. For now, though, I'm basking in the warm glow
of being the first person in the world to run GEOS on an IBM mainframe.
--
Doug Taylor ***

Excellent, Doug!


Chip Blank
GUI
GeoGrafix

The GEOS Users International website is at:
http://hometown.aol.com/GUIUSA/GUI_USA.html

Congratulation from my side too !!!

Andreas

Douglas A. Taylor wrote:
>
> At work we have an IBM mainframe -- one of the old-style "big irons" --
that
> has a partition running SUSe Linux. It's pretty interesting to see how
> well they've adapted/ported what's essentially an i386-style operating
> system to the radically different architecture of the mainframe.
>
> Just today, I downloaded DOSBox .62 and compiled it on this beastie.
> Previous versions of DOSBox have compiled OK, but wouldn't run. Well,
this
> one ran . . . slowly, but it ran. And guess what was the first program
I
> tried out? Why, GEOS, of course, vintage NDO98. And it worked! Very
> slowly, but it worked. I'm going to play with various parameters to see
> how much I can speed it up. For now, though, I'm basking in the warm
glow
> of being the first person in the world to run GEOS on an IBM mainframe.
> --
> Doug Taylor | Nothing real can be threatened.
> The Ohio State University | Nothing unreal exists.
> doug-taylor+@osu.edu | - A Course in Miracles
>
>