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From: schaut@cat9.cs.wisc.edu (Rick Schaut)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Unix
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Date: 22 Mar 90 12:20:44 GMT
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In article <1990Mar16.222205.9749@comm.WANG.COM> lws@comm.WANG.COM (Lyle Seaman) writes:
| wallwey@boulder.Colorado.EDU (WALLWEY DEAN WILLIAM) writes:
| [An example of OS/2 multi-tasking capabilties]
| 
| These examples are not nearly as useful as the original proposed example.
| So I repeat:  Is it capable of keeping an accurate file transfer running
| in the background using one serial port while another serial port is also
| in use?

1) To whom are those examples "not nearly as useful"?  For the average user,
the ability to get information and use it at the same time is more important
than the ability to collect information from two different sources at the
same time.  You've assumed a context that may not be representative of the
way that most people use computers.

2) If you want to be able to, say, transfer a file and print another one at
the same time, I can do that with Windows on top of good old DOS (I just
did it!).  Better yet, with OS/2 on a tightly-coupled multiprocessor system,
I can do that and still have the _full_ capabilities of another processor
available for a third application I might want to run.  Neither the AT&T nor
the Berkely flavors of UNIX can handle tightly-coupled multi-processors.

| Besides, OS/2 is just warmed-over MS-DOS.  I'd rather have TRS-DOS 4.0.

Why don't you try using a system before flaming it?

--
Rick (schaut@garfield.cs.wisc.edu)

"I'm a theory geek; we use Turing machines!"--Gary Lewandowski