Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!gibdo!slh From: slh@gibdo.engr.washington.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: Request for information from OS/2 neophyte Summary: what? Message-ID: <1991Apr26.131520.12846@gibdo.engr.washington.edu> Date: 26 Apr 91 13:22:37 GMT References: <1991Apr22.211632.4960@colorado.edu> <1991Apr24.125818.26340@watson.ibm.com> <1991Apr24.214625.12397@netcom.COM> Sender: news@milton.u.washington.edu (News) Reply-To: slh@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Organization: zippity Lines: 15 In article <1991Apr24.214625.12397@netcom.COM> resnicks@netcom.COM (Steve Resnick) writes: |In article <1991Apr24.125818.26340@watson.ibm.com> larrys@yktvmv writes: [stuff] |>Not really, although there are a lot of misconceptions about OS/2: |> (Seen in a trade mag) OS/2 is not a preemptive multitasking |> operating system. Windows is. | | Windows is not preemptive multi-tasking. OS/2 is. |> [more making the same points the originaly poster was making] | |What you've said here almost entirely contradicts my experience with OS/2. | Read the msg again, especially the first line I quoted, these are exactly the points the original poster was making.