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From: cbenda@unccvax.uncc.edu (carl m benda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Death of OS/2? (was Re: Microsoft OS/2?)
Summary: Keep your flames off of our News group..
Keywords: OS/2, Presentation Manager, Microsoft
Message-ID: <3172@unccvax.uncc.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 91 02:08:50 GMT
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Organization: University of NC at Charlotte
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Please Gordon, I don't even know why you even bother reading this
news group's postings.  But if you must reply to a note, do so off
line unless it has something to do with the NeXT machine or its 
OS.  This brings me to this posting.

PLEASE folks, do NOT let Gordon Letwin fool anyone into believing that
MS LOSS uh dos, is anything BUT a control program which gets out of the
way the minute an application is run.  Hint, if you can't log into it..
its NOT an operating system.  Ask Gordon why the most stable version of
DOS 3.3 only can access 32Megabytes of disk at a time?  

Myself, I write OS/2 programs at IBM for a living, and Microsoft couldn't
pay me enough to go work for them.  Our systems run UNIX from the 390 
ES/9000 systems all the way down to my home computer running AIX on a
10 Megabyte 386 system with 8514 display.  The default standard GUI
lowest common denominator is X.  Even the NeXT machine can run it.  I
will say, though that even X can learn from some of what IBM and 
Microsoft have put into OS/2.  The NeXT operating system, and OSF
desparately need to have Dynamic Link Libraries with reentrant code.
When an X example that puts "hello World" into a window takes up 
273K of disk space, something is wrong.  With OS/2 alot of the PM	
code is in Dynamic Link Libraries which can be used by all of the 
currently running applications.  The code is reentrant.  I am told
that OSF plans to add this to one of their upcomming releases.

Sorry for the mildly incoherent posting...  Can we PLEASE move onto
real NeXT issues? (he says after throwing in his 2 bits :)  The point
being that Bill Gates need not be mentioned in this news group unless
something happens like a cube falls on his foot preventing him from
driving his 959 or whatever his Porsche of the Day is...

/Carl