Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!decvax.dec.com!maxx!tyager From: tyager@maxx.UUCP (Tom Yager) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Interactive and me - An open letter to ISC. Message-ID: <55@maxx.UUCP> Date: 15 Jul 90 23:50:05 GMT References: <3126@rsiatl.UUCP> <783@digi.lonestar.org> Organization: MAXX: Tom Yager's UNIX lab, Amherst, NH. Lines: 50 In article , peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > In article <783@digi.lonestar.org> cfoughty@digi.lonestar.org (Cy Foughty) writes: > > > A much richer programming environment > Yep. You have Microsoft C, and Microsoft C. Well, just to keep things fair, I'll note that at least Lattice C and Zortech C++ both produce OS/2 binaries. Zortech's 2.1 compiler is reportedly a better OS/2 environment than MSC 6.0. > > > and soooo > > much easier to connect to a network. > > How can you possibly connect a single-user box to a network? A network > is inherently a multi-user environment. What do you do... give up on > security or run everything in a strict client-or-server setup? DOS systems run just dandy on networks--that's one of the things that keeps the wind in DOS's sails (sales?). Both DOS and OS/2 can operate in peer network configurations, sharing printers, disks, modems, CD-ROMS...you name it. Networking is not inherently anything. With a little imagination, even the strangest of systems can be networked. I run TCP/IP and NFS on an 8086-based laptop and a Xircom Pocket Ethernet adapter. I was prepared to be disappointed, but it works great. > > For that fact it > > shouldn't be "OS/2 vs. Unix". > > No, it should be OS/2 versus AmigaOS, Microsoft Windows, and Mac System 7. Can I run AmigaOS or Mac System 7 on other vendors' hardware? Let's not let this discussion degenerate to the petty "is not!", "is so!" back-and-forth that typically dominates OS discussions. I'd really like to see some worthwhile commentary from both sides. We don't need to declare a winner in the end, but maybe some useful information will come out as a result. Don't count OS/2 or any OS out without a sensible argument. > -- > Peter da Silva. `-_-' > -- +--Tom Yager, Technical Editor, BYTE----Reviewer, UNIX World---------------+ | NET: decvax!maxx!tyager -or- uunet!bytepb!maxx!tyager | | I speak only for myself "UNIX: It's not a job, | +-------------------------------------it's a Jihad!" -co-worker------------+