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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 8-bit death
Message-ID: <3330.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 8 May 91 07:55:10 GMT
References: <1991Apr28.162045.15585@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> 
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Quoted from <1075@stewart.UUCP> by jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel):
> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

> >Microsoft has abandoned OS/2, didn't you notice?

> 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

    I thought IBM _took_ it from Microsoft because they thought Microsoft
    was botching it. The IBM version coming out now is apparently way
    ahead of the old one (I say apparently, because that's just what the
    local OS/2 enthusiasts say - I wouldn't touch it myself, unless I
    was paid to - nothing that runs on an Intel CPU can be worthwhile).

> 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

    Does OS/2 multitask as nicely as Unix, have all those crontab and
    uucp facilities, the user/group/world file protection stuff, etc?

> been exposed to the richness of its API.

    Things like run-time libraries, etc? :)

> | JERRY J. SHEKHEL  | POLYGEN CORPORATION  | When I was young, I had to walk |
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