Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ssbell!mcmi!dsndata!wayne From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Real 'OS/2 vs. Unix' Message-ID: Date: 6 Jan 90 17:42:28 GMT References: <2590cf5b@ralf> <1022@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> <3364@cpoint.UUCP> Sender: wayne@dsndata.UUCP Organization: Design Data Lines: 31 In-reply-to: alien@cpoint.UUCP's message of 5 Jan 90 16:06:35 GMT In article <3364@cpoint.UUCP> alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells) writes: > [ lots of stuff deleted, most of which i agree with... ] > > At this point, Unix has a number of MAJOR problems, none of which you > addressed: > [ ... ] > and moved the technology upscale (consider how much Dos->OS/2 has > changed since 1981, and compare that with how much Unix has changed). ms/dos and os/2 are two completely different operating systems. they may have been created by the same people and one is meant to take over the other's market, but they are really quite different. (in the late 60's, ibm created a quick and dirty operating system called "DOS" so that people and something to run until thier "real" operating system came out. 20+ years later MVS/XA is _still_ trying to kill off DOS/VSE... ) anyway, if you compare how dos has change from 1.0 through 4.0, or how os/2 has change since it was first released, i would say that unix is moving _faster_ than either of them. > [ more stuff deleted... most of which i dont disagree on enough to > comment on ] > > -- > --------| Whether you can believe it or not, the universe is > Alien | laughing behind your back. - Deteriorata > --------| decvax!frog!cpoint!alien bu-cs!mirror!frog!cpoint!alien -wayne