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From: krohmer@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Gary Krohmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 - UNIX Development Platform Comparison
Message-ID: <7470002@hpspcoi.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Sep 90 14:41:24 GMT
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Organization: HP PCG, Sunnyvale CA
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> I'm doing a comparison of OS/2 and UNIX as software development platforms.
> At the moment, I'm still doing the research and was wondering if anyone
> out there has seen or done a similar comparison.  If so, would you be
> kind enough to share it with me?  I'm particularly interested in these
> areas:

> 	Software Tools   *****
> 	Kernel APIs
> 	Windowing Systems
> 	Price
> 	Device Drivers

> Thanks in advance for your help.

> George Skillman 

I have been using the MKS toolkit for development on OS/2. This is a collection
of unix tools (vi, grep, awk etc ...) that has been ported (re-written ??)
to OS/2. This has enabled me to make the transition from unix code development
to OS/2 development relatively painless. MKS (Mortice Kern Systems Inc.) can be
reached at (519) 884-2251.

Gary Krohmer
Hewlett Packard
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