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An operating system originally developed by Microsoft and IBM; Microsoft dropped out of the project to concentrate on its Windows operating systems. IBM continued to develop OS/2, and to this day there are still OS/2 users out there, mainly in the financial and banking world. OS/2 is a full 32-bit operating system.
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OS/2 - Just curious if this combo voice/data offering is from Allegiance? If so,run away as fast as you can ... they are bad news.-- PaulDon Matteson wrote in messagenews:telecom22.575.2@telecom-digest.org: Hi all - I'm a computer guy thrust into the role of having to make sense of a proposal from a potential telecom vendor. In a nutshell, here's the situation: We currently have a PRI system in place over a copper T-1 line and we have a 256K SDSL line for Internet access. As I understand it, the PRI allows us 23 B channels (plus one D channel) to use for our voice communications. Another company proposes taking us over to a T-1 with 12 business lines plus 4 channels dedicated to our Internet access. It seems to me that we'll be losing several lines in the transition, which could hurt us when we hit our busy season in a few months. My little brain tells me that in either case, there are a total of 23B+1D channels available (since they're both T-1 based), but the PRI allows us to handle a larger call volume because all 23 B channels are going to voice traffic. On the other hand, the straight T-1 approach would limit us to 12 channels, with enough room to expand to 19 B channels (the last 4 being reserved for our Internet connection). We were getting our butts kicked back when we only had 8 lines (in our pre-PRI days), so I'm leery of reducing the number of available voice lines. Am I thinking about this at all lucidly? My grasp on T-1 vs. PRI is clearly pretty weak, so I'd appreciate any feedback. Of course, if this is a RTFM situation, I'd appreciate it if you could direct me to some FMs to R. :)
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