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From: wallwey@boulder.Colorado.EDU (WALLWEY DEAN WILLIAM)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Unix
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Date: 16 Mar 90 03:46:59 GMT
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In article <6508@skinner.nprdc.arpa> malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) writes:
>.......
>I would give each of them 1/2 for only handling one of the
>configurations, and then hand OS/2 a bit more for having LAN Manager
>more conveniently available. Then I'd take a bunch back because OS/2 is
>designed for a single processor architecture, and some more because it
>doesn't handle it right (only one 'DOS compatibility box' thread
>running at one time, for example). 
>
>When OS/2 runs on something other than 80[234]86 machines, it's going
>to be a serious competitor for future operating systems; as long as
>it's architecture-specific, regardless of how well it runs on that
>architecture, it's still a dodo.
>
>
> Sean Malloy                                   | "The Crystal Wind is the
> Navy Personnel Research & Development Center  | Storm, and the Storm is Data,
> San Diego, CA 92152-6800                      | and the Data is Life."
> malloy@nprdc.navy.mil                         | -- _Emerald Eyes_, D.K. Moran

OS/2 ver 2.0 is supposed to handle multiple 'DOS compatibility boxes'
and with a lot more safety due to it use of the Virtual Machine modes
provided by the 80386.  Of course it will require a 80386.

Another thing, check out the latest version OS/2 with LAN Manager from
Compaq (sp?) that is written for the System Pro (tm). It is designed to
use two 80386's or 80486's when the cards come out this summer.  There
are reviews in the latest PC Magazine and Byte magazines about the
System Pro and they talk a little about the LAN Manager written for it.

One last thing, rumor has it that Bill Gates is trying to get OS/2
rewritten in C so that it can be easily transported to new machines.


	Dean Wallwey