Tell that to Dave Cutler and other guys from Digital who started working on NT in 1988. I'm sure they would be surprized to know that they stole their code from IBM.
No, they were partners with IBM. MS and IBM cooperatively developed OS/2 v1.X, with IBM developing OS/2 v2.x and MS developing OS/2 NT v3+ NT was to be a complete rewrite of OS/2 in C, portable etc. Then it turned out that MS stole the interface from OS/2 v1.2+ and used it to create win3.0 which they pushed while suckering in IBM about OS/2. This created a lot of bad feelings and with other things eventually led to the breakup of the partnership after which Gates openly changed OS/2 NT into win NT. The 16 bit windows platform went on to dominate the desktop. NT sat around waiting for hardware to catch up to it and OS/2 v2+ languished under a combination of bad marketing, strict hardware requirements (a lot of that hand coded assembly died from timing problems such as 2 different brands of ram installed) and very heavy pressure from MS. So while MS developed NT there was a lot of cross pollination between IBM and MS during the development of OS/2 NT v3 Dave
Is is impossible to turn of the Flash music that get enforced through my speakers
I don't knnow about your system but here (mozilla on OS/2) I can goto about:plugins, scroll down to the shockwave flash and click settings. This opens up a settings notebook where amongst other things I can disable audio, adjust the volume and pick out which audio device that flash uses. Dave
Using my trusty gopher client to goto gopher.ptloma.edu/v2 and clicking on veronica 2 database and robot status gives Veronica-2 database statistics as of Wed Jun 5 21:41:25 2002 The robot is not currently running. The robot is presently quiescent, awaiting data for its next search run. The last update of the live database was Mon Dec 31 20:38:30 2001. This modification time does not reflect any changes made in the search system. So far, Veronica-2 has found 7233660 unique and verified selectors, generated by 555 unique servers (counting host and port pairs). Dave, still using OS/2
Huh, I paid $0.00 for OS/2 v2.11 direct from IBM and $50 (cdn) for OS/2 v3. Both required that you use your own version of Windows. The problem was Microsoft charged IBM an arm and a leg for including Windows. To bring back onto topic. The OS/2 port of Opera allows you to use native Win32 plugins with the help of Odin (sorta wine fo os/2). Unluckily Odin is behind wine in development. Dave
>Name one general purpose OS that comes without a browser.
While OS/2 (ver 4.52 released dec 17/01) does come with a couple of browsers you don't have to install them and can use selective uninstall to remove them or just delete them. The OS only uses them with a plugin (feature installer) so you could most likely replace them with Opera or Mozilla. Dave
If you mean SMS, it does not cost anything to recieve them (well, maybe if you travel
abroad with your mobile) here in Europe.
Well the other day I got a SMS from my cell company (fido). Starting Mar 1 incoming SMS and emails cost 10 cents a message. Right away I thought spam, lets see I get about 20 spams a day (on my computer) so thats $2 a day X 30 is $60 a month. Right now I pay about $7.50 a month as I hardly ever use my cell and have a pay as you go account. Scary Oh this is Canada Dave
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Hmm, here under OS/2 it is alt-213, alt-128 is a C with a comma under it.
alt-128 Ç
alt-213
Dave
The BBC streaming Ogg Vorbis is good as it can reach the widest audience and is inexpensive.
That is the gist of the letter I am writing to the CBC. Be a good idea for others to write to their public broadcasters and tell them this. Also remind them they are at least partly supported by us, the taxpayers (even if only thru nonprofit status)and we want value.
>Heah !, but only one queue of message for the >HOLE system... so, if a program read a window >message and doesn't return it, the OS is jam ! >great design
No, the single queue problem is in the SHELL, not the OS. You don't have to use IBMs shell (WPS).
Dave, running OS/2 ver 4.5 kernel released 10/26/01
Most every tool available in Linux is also available in OS/2 (though sometimes a version behind). We have xfree86, gcc, emacs, the gimp, gnome, quite a few window managers, to name just a few things.
Dave
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Tell that to Dave Cutler and other guys from Digital who started working on NT in 1988. I'm sure they would be surprized to know that they stole their code from IBM.
No, they were partners with IBM. MS and IBM cooperatively developed OS/2 v1.X, with IBM developing OS/2 v2.x and MS developing OS/2 NT v3+ NT was to be a complete rewrite of OS/2 in C, portable etc.
Then it turned out that MS stole the interface from OS/2 v1.2+ and used it to create win3.0 which they pushed while suckering in IBM about OS/2. This created a lot of bad feelings and with other things eventually led to the breakup of the partnership after which Gates openly changed OS/2 NT into win NT.
The 16 bit windows platform went on to dominate the desktop. NT sat around waiting for hardware to catch up to it and OS/2 v2+ languished under a combination of bad marketing, strict hardware requirements (a lot of that hand coded assembly died from timing problems such as 2 different brands of ram installed) and very heavy pressure from MS.
So while MS developed NT there was a lot of cross pollination between IBM and MS during the development of OS/2 NT v3
Dave
Is is impossible to turn of the Flash music that get enforced through my speakers
I don't knnow about your system but here (mozilla on OS/2) I can goto about:plugins, scroll down to the shockwave flash and click settings. This opens up a settings notebook where amongst other things I can disable audio, adjust the volume and pick out which audio device that flash uses.
Dave
Not WinDos, (don't know about NT) Win98 runs here hotter while idle then OS/2 does running dnetc.
Dave
RocksnDiamonds, excellent game for younger (and older) people. http://artsoft.org/rocksndiamonds/
Dave
Using my trusty gopher client to goto gopher.ptloma.edu/v2 and clicking on
veronica 2 database and robot status gives
Veronica-2 database statistics as of Wed Jun 5 21:41:25 2002
The robot is not currently running.
The robot is presently quiescent, awaiting data for its next search run.
The last update of the live database was Mon Dec 31 20:38:30 2001.
This modification time does not reflect any changes made in the search system.
So far, Veronica-2 has found 7233660 unique and verified selectors,
generated by 555 unique servers (counting host and port pairs).
Dave, still using OS/2
Huh, I paid $0.00 for OS/2 v2.11 direct from IBM and $50 (cdn) for OS/2 v3. Both required that you use your own version of Windows. The problem was Microsoft charged IBM an arm and a leg for including Windows.
To bring back onto topic. The OS/2 port of Opera allows you to use native Win32 plugins with the help of Odin (sorta wine fo os/2). Unluckily Odin is behind wine in development.
Dave
>Name one general purpose OS that comes without a browser.
While OS/2 (ver 4.52 released dec 17/01) does come with a couple of browsers you don't have to install them and can use selective uninstall to remove them or just delete them. The OS only uses them with a plugin (feature installer) so you could most likely replace them with Opera or Mozilla.
Dave
If you mean SMS, it does not cost anything to recieve them (well, maybe if you travel
abroad with your mobile) here in Europe.
Well the other day I got a SMS from my cell company (fido). Starting Mar 1 incoming SMS and emails cost 10 cents a message. Right away I thought spam, lets see I get about 20 spams a day (on my computer) so thats $2 a day X 30 is $60 a month. Right now I pay about $7.50 a month as I hardly ever use my cell and have a pay as you go account. Scary
Oh this is Canada
Dave
Hmm, here under OS/2 it is alt-213, alt-128 is a C with a comma under it.
alt-128 Ç
alt-213
Dave
The BBC streaming Ogg Vorbis is good as it can reach the widest audience and is inexpensive.
That is the gist of the letter I am writing to the CBC. Be a good idea for others to write to their public broadcasters and tell them this. Also remind them they are at least partly supported by us, the taxpayers (even if only thru nonprofit status)and we want value.
Merry Xmas
>Heah !, but only one queue of message for the >HOLE system... so, if a program read a window >message and doesn't return it, the OS is jam ! >great design
No, the single queue problem is in the SHELL, not the OS. You don't have to use IBMs shell (WPS).
Dave, running OS/2 ver 4.5 kernel released 10/26/01
I get blocked using Netscape 4.61 on OS/2
Dave
Most every tool available in Linux is also available in OS/2 (though sometimes a version behind). We have xfree86, gcc, emacs, the gimp, gnome, quite a few window managers, to name just a few things.
Dave