In a message dated 6/28/01 7:42:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
pechter_at_bg-tc-ppp1667.monmouth.com writes:
<< > Bill Pechter skrev:
>
> >I'd liked a cross between OS/2 and VAX/VMS... maybe with FreeBSD
> >thrown in.
>
> Isn't that Windows NT?
Not if you have to use the GUI to admin it and reboot to change
network addresses.
>
> >Always liked OS/2 and always will. IBM was screwed by M$ who kept
> >changing Win32 and keeping new apps from running on OS/2.
>
> So what? OS/2 is OS/2 and Windows is Windows. You can't just rely on some
> other OS vendor to supply you with the right API and applications.
>
> But M$ promised if you code to Win32S it would be portable to OS/2,
> Win3.1 and Win95/NT and kept changing the DLLs to break it.
.The only problem in OS/2 was if the Workplace Shell threads blocked and
>locked up you'd lose the desktop... but all the server services
>like network kept going.
>Getting a prompt and login from Telnet was possible on OS/2 when it
>wasn't standard in NT.
>The ftp and telnet servers made OS/2 pretty compatible to
>FreeBSD/Linux/Unix in what it could do on a lan. >>
OS/2 v.3 had a single input queue which caused the problem where the desktop
would not respond but the system will still chug along just fine. If you had
a multithreaded foreground app that quit working, sometimes there was no way
to break of it. Supposedly that was fixed in Warp 4 but i've still had it
quit on me. Installing that program called Watchcat has saved me several
times from rebooting.
--
DB Young Team OS/2
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Received on Thu Jun 28 2001 - 19:47:30 BST