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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Pournelle doesn't like Unix Re: R.I.P. Byte
Message-ID: <1393@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 1 Sep 88 18:43:56 GMT
References: <402@mfgfoc.UUCP> <674@proxftl.UUCP> <1995@looking.UUCP>
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In article <1995@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
> Indeed, the OS/2 team claimed that the distinction behind OS/2 would be
> that it was the first interactive OS to be designed for a single user.

What about AmigaOS? For that matter, what about RT-11? I'm sure you can
come up with more examples. What I don't understand is... why is this
a virtue? For example...

> (For example, by choosing the DOS filesystem as the default filesystem,
> instead of making it a supported mountable filesystem, OS/2 forgets that
> even though I'm the only one on my computer, I'm far from the only one
> who wants to use data on it.)

AmigaOS gets this part right. It's not totally dain bramaged, just a little
weak in places. Oh well, it's young. It'll learn...

The rest of your article is totally right-on.
-- 
Peter da Silva  `-_-'  Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
"Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?"            peter@ficc.uu.net