Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: OS/2 flame war (was Re: Stoopid *nix freaks!) Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 90 12:53:37 GMT References: <90052.182144CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu> <6937@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> <16155@smunews.UUCP> <25e6d6ed.26a3@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 17 In-reply-to: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU's message of 24 Feb 90 18:48:13 GMT In article <25e6d6ed.26a3@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) writes: [lauds OS/2] The problem with OS/2 is that it is simply Unix reimplemented. And as Henry Spencer point out, "those who don't understand Unix are doomed to reinvent it, poorly". Now, if you were a software developer, and you had the resources to make your program work under Unix or OS/2, but not both, which would you choose? An OS that runs only on 286es, or an OS that runs on 286s AND everything else imaginable (and a few that aren't). -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems