Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!msp33327 From: msp33327@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael S. Pereckas) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: OS/2 is dead? Keywords: OS/2 Message-ID: <1990Dec13.215824.23021@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 13 Dec 90 21:58:24 GMT References: <28775@usc> <14887@ogicse.ogi.edu> <5074@trantor.harris-atd.com> <1990Dec13.170613.19556@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 25 OS/2 will probably be more interesting when they finally finish writting it. Someday, it will have all the things unix has had for some years now. It will be 32 bit (that is mostly done now). It will run on machines that don't look extraordinarily similar to IBM PC/ATs. (can you say risc?) Perhaps they will finaly free themselves from the Intel 80x86s. It will have working printer drivers someday. The problem is that it was released some years ago, long before they had finished writting it. If they'd just written a nice graphical shell for unix, they'd have been done writting it a long time ago. But IBM and Microsoft don't like standards. So while everything from workstations to supers runs something that looks like unix, they'll keep working on OS/2. Someday, it might be as good as unix, probably better in some areas. But unix will be the standard for workstations on up. (What's the ``P'' is PC stand for? Proprietary.) -- Michael Pereckas * InterNet: m-pereckas@uiuc.edu * just another student... (CI$: 72311,3246) Jargon Dept.: Decoupled Architecture---sounds like the aftermath of a tornado