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From: c60b-ia@buddy.Berkeley.EDU (Sugih Jamin)
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Subject: Re: UNIX vs. OS/2
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Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 15:14:20 EDT
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In article <3835@zen.berkeley.edu> iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Tim Iverson) writes:
>In article <3834@zen.berkeley.edu> c60b-ia@buddy.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Sugih Jamin) writes:
>
>>  While OS/2
>>won't be that much more powerful than UNIX, if at all.
>
>You seem to have it wrong here (as well as not having listened to the
>recent articles).  UNIX, now, is much a more capable and complex OS than
>OS/2 will be when it is released.  It has taken UNIX more than 10 years
>to get to where it is today.  It will undoubtably take OS/2 10 years to
>reach the point at which UNIX is today.


That's what I said, OS/2 won't be as powerful as UNIX *is*.

You are right about my not having listened to the recent articles though,
I was, and am, still catching up will all the news.

sugih jamin
(c60b-ia.berkeley.edu)