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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft And Friends
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Date: 12 Nov 90 22:22:27 GMT
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In article <1990Nov11.174012.9566@gupta.portal.com> few@gupta.portal.com (Frank Whaley) writes:
|In article <1990Nov9.193424.1196@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
|>Actually, OS/2 has more sophisticated technology than Unix.
|
|I tried long and hard to stay out of this, but I've heard this argument
|too many times without a single line of proof.  Can anyone name even
|one example of 'more sophisticated technology' available in OS/2 that
|is not available in at least one flavor of Unix?

OS/2 has support for "threads". An application can have multiple
threads of execution so that one document could be printing while
you're editing another.

OS/2 also has a high performance filesystem. In addition, file names
can be 256 characters (or so) long. How many characters can SCO Unix
filenames have? How many Unixs have high performance filesystems?

How many Unixes come with Windows built in.?

|I'll admit Unix applications lack some of the sophistication of their
|Microsoft counterparts.  This has nothing to do with the differences
|between systems, but rather the differences in markets.  Should the

The original article complained about all the attention given
to Microsoft.

|market change, Unix applications will rapidly gain sophistication.

Personally, I think Unix is too far behind OS/2 to ever catch up.
The further behind you are, the harder it is to catch up.

|>I think you don't understand what real users want. Namely: applications!
|
|No one wants an application.  People only want solutions to their
|problems.  People buy the technology that provides a cost-effective
|solution (if they're smart :-)

Yup, and Unix is not that technology for many users.

|A final question:  Is anyone posting to this thread via an OS/2
|machine on the Net?

Not yet, maybe next year.

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