Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!polygen!jerry From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: 8-bit death Message-ID: <1075@stewart.UUCP> Date: 6 May 91 15:01:02 GMT References: <1991Apr28.162045.15585@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <1991Apr30.112820.2451@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991May2.012127.28779@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <1991May2.104907.25975@sugar.hackercorp.com> Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel) Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA Lines: 27 peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > >Microsoft has abandoned OS/2, didn't you notice? > >(OS/2: bigger than UNIX and does half as much. Would *you* buy half an O/S?) > All right. This "half-an-OS" garbage is beginning to irritate me. Microsoft is a business; they dropped it because it wasn't selling. That doesn't mean it wasn't a superior OS. In this industry, people don't always buy the better product, and you should know that, Mr. Experience. Your statement that OS/2 is bigger than UNIX is complete bull, as is your statement about OS/2 functionality. You have obviously never seen it or been exposed to the richness of its API. >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >. -- +-------------------+----------------------+---------------------------------+ | JERRY J. SHEKHEL | POLYGEN CORPORATION | When I was young, I had to walk | | Drummers do it... | Waltham, MA USA | to school and back every day -- | | ... In rhythm! | (617) 890-2175 | 20 miles, uphill both ways. | +-------------------+----------------------+---------------------------------+ | ...! [ princeton mit-eddie bu sunne ] !polygen!jerry | | jerry@polygen.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+