I was looking the all-singing, all-dancing statistics available to me with the new hosts to see what was in there and found the bit where it tells you what operating systems are used by visitors to this site.

Most visits (46%) come from “unknown” which could well be search engine bots and similar. Unsurprisingly Windows dominates the list with XP at the top (35%). The only surprises there were to see how many people are still using Win 95, 98, Me and that there were visits from someone running ‘codename Longhorn’.

Down at the bottom of the list was the real shock – 4 visits from machines running OS/2 and 7 from machines running C/PM! That takes me back. Fond memories of the PIP command.

Are there still functioning computers running C/PM surfing the net or has some humorous anorak managed to get their modern computer to represent itself as an antique?

It turns out that it was actually a major power issue in their main data centre and not my fault this time.

I know this because I was able to go to their support site and chat online to a real live support person – either that or a very good Turing machine. Had I been willing to fork out for transatlantic phone calls I could have actually spoke to them instead. Just one of many reasons why I eventually left Supanames.

I forgot to ask why they don’t run their customers’ servers in the same place as their own. Or maybe thats a stupid question like why they don’t make planes out of the same material as the black boxes.