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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 programmer's model
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Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 12:53:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 10 12:53:20 1987
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>> "why OS/2 at all".
>
>It has *no* advantages over a UNIX + DOS-bridge combination. None.

I'm not convinced of this.  The OS/2+presentation manager (windows)
provides a nice, standard, window/graphics programming environment.
Of course, this version of OS/2 is not supposed to arrive for a long
time.

If the 386 UNIX vendors would get together and support X-windows and
a common object file format, then OS/2 would begin to look pretty
silly.

I did notice that OS/2 supports "lightweight processes" (my own
terminology, not Microsoft's).  I wish UNIX could do that sometimes.
fork/exec is not always the best multitasking model.  Oh well.