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From: GUTHERY%ASC%sdr.slb.com@RELAY.CS.NET (guthery%asc@sdr.slb.com)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Unix vs. OS/2 (was RE: Pournelle on Unix)
Message-ID: <11156@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 7 Jan 88 13:51:07 GMT
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1) Here are some O/S goodies that stock OS/2 (now playing on my desk)
has that stock Unix (also playing on my desk) doesn't have:
	- built-in light weight processes blended compatibly 
	  with heavy weight processes 
	- runtime dynamic linking and demand loading
	- shared global memory segments
	- file locking by byte region
	- standard system calls from drivers
	- periodic signals
	- systemwide semaphores
	- file write-though
	- system trace

2) Microsoft/IBM marketing hype seems to bother some folks.  I will 
wager a chocolate Dunkin' Donut that the number of dollars spent on hyping
Unix divided by the number of years Unix has been out is GREATER
than the number of dollars spent hyping OS/2 divided by the (fractional)
number years its been out.  I think it's been the Year of Unix since about
1982, hasn't it? (Yawn) AT&T by itself has spent far more hyping Unix than 
Microsoft and IBM put together have spent hyping OS/2 AND DOS.  Tell me
again about hype.

3) Kernel hacking is not research.  A Unix wizard who doesn't know what
SIGOPS is loses five hit points.  Do the wizards sense extinction?

							Cheers, Scott