Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: scheng@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David Boles) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Death of OS/2? (was Re: Microsoft OS/2?) Message-ID: <44027@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 11 Feb 91 21:31:19 GMT References: <2467@beguine.UUCP> <29814@usc> <70471@microsoft.UUCP> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: scheng@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David Boles) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 17 In article scott@erick.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes: > >I think that Apple would have liked to have out a "secure pre-emptive >object-oriented protected" [I'm not sure about other parts] already. >They are working on it. I believe it's called System 7.0. I believe >they've been working on it for, oh, 2 or 3 years now (though it's Well, I've got System 7.0 for my mac at work and although I like it better than System 6.0.[1 2 3 4 5 6 7] :), It is certainly _not_ secure or protected. Nor does it possess preemptive multitasking. If anyone thinks this doesn't matter, try up/downloading a file at 20k baud while running a compile and writing a letter. Windows can't do it and neither can the mac, but OS/2 and UNIX make it easy. --db