You have got that right. Coefficient of friction on that kind of surface is close to zero. I have had my share of bad experiences with this devilish phenomenon, but luckily I am built closer to the ground than you and only have had my pride hurt. At least you can sleep now uninterrupted. Hope you heal properly and quickly.
Unusual springtime weather here. All the snow is gone and temperatures are in the 60's F (almost 20 C). I don't ever recall such an early and warm spring. Awfully dry too.
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Winter has paid a brief visit with about 2 in(5cm) of snow this morning. The roads were slicker than Brylcreem hair this morning. But by later in the morning it had warmed up and the ice on the roads had melted.
I am busy backing up an old 386 I acquired brand new in the late 1980's I think. I keep this system around because it has some interesting shareware on it and it has both 3.5 and 5.25 in floppy drives. However, the only way I have to back up the files is by using 1.4Mb floppies. I am transferring all the files to a newer machine which has some USB ports so I can eventually transfer all the files to a flash drive. Transferring about 90Mb of data takes a while by this method. I think I may finish it tonight. I even had to use my old copy of PKZIP on some files which were too big for the floppy. On DOS that is all CLI.
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I did have to go back and read the documentation to find the switch which allows for the spanning of multiple diskettes. The nice thing about it, is even on the 386 it works fast and gives pretty good compression ratios, >50% on the files I using. With the space available today, most don't even think about compression any more.
I think I still have my box of OS2 someplace. I haven't thought about it for years.
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Right there you have one of the reasons (among many) why it died out.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but I seem to remember it was supposed to be more crash resistant than Windows. Microsoft I believe used some monopolistic practices with OEM's to prevent getting a machine with OS2 installed. (Pre Chinese wall between OS and application division ???) I seem to recall there was some lack of developers and a lack of drivers for some hardware. Other than still having a copy, my memories of exactly how the product performed are hazy to say the least.
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