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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Message-ID: <632@bogart.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 89 14:59:34 GMT
References: <33269@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <9106@cbmvax.commodore.com> <627@bogart.UUCP> <1649@intercon.com>
Reply-To: jerry@bogart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <1649@intercon.com> amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
>
>And there are things that OS/2 *still* doesn't have:
>
> - Built-in networking (specifically, printer sharing and file server client
>   software as part of the OS, not an extra-cost add on)
> ...                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> [OS/2]
>The OS where windows are an extra?  Or network support?  Sure, why not?
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Oh, no, let's talk about the Mac, where the f***ing keyboard is an extra-
cost add on.  Actually, the whole damn system is an extra-cost add on.
Just look at Mac pricing.

FYI, windows are not an extra under OS/2.  And you're listing things that
OS/2 "*STILL* doesn't have"?  Consider that OS/2 is in its second
release, while there's been a new release of MacOS every twenty minutes
since 1984.

Yeah, I know that MacOS has plenty of nice features.  But there's no
real operating system at the heart of the Mac.  As long as that's true,
the Mac is not a powerful platform.


>
>I thought we weren't comparing 7.0 to OS/2.  But hey, if you insist:
>
> - Remote database access (SQL)
> - Outline Fonts
> - Paged Virtual Memory on hardware that will support it
> - High-speed file system searching
> - Communications Toolbox
> - Inter Application Communication
> [blah blah blah blah blah]

Let's not make it sound like OS/2 doesn't have most of these things.
Besides, comparing a real operating system with virtual memory, memory
protection, and true multitasking to MacOS is a waste of time.  And OS/2
does all of this on truly inexpensive 286 hardware.  So let's bury this
thread now.

No, wait:

Inter Application Communication in MacOS 7.0 and NOT in OS/2?  This has
got to be a joke.


>
>Amanda Walker
>InterCon Systems Corporation
>Purveyors of fine Macintosh and PC networking software worldwide.
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