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From: alex@mks.UUCP (Alex White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs AmigaDOS
Keywords: Operating Systems, Religion WRT computers
Message-ID: <917@mks.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 20:52:31 GMT
References: <2134@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <5625@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: alex@mks.UUCP (Alex White)
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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In article <5625@microsoft.UUCP> w-glenns@microsoft.UUCP (Glenn Steffler) writes:
>OS/2 is a business oriented OS, with extensive network capabilities, in
>addition to a rich and quite overwhelming array of multitasking
>primatives.  OS/2 has memory, and resource protection, vital for multiple
Overwhelming array of multitasking primitives?
You've got to be kidding.
You're right -- it has more than are ever likely to be needed, but
it doesn't have standard simple ones like fork().
It doesn't have very good ways to inherit things like signals.
The session manager interface is undocumented.  [When I asked microsoft
it was pointed out to me that you'd only want it for shells, and
they provide 3 different shells, and shells are not application programs.]