>Post Script: In the years since this article was >written, independent developers have kept OS/2 on >life support,
Not to mention a plethorial of regular fixpaks since 1996 from IBM... latest Jan'02... and IBM has stated support thro'2008.... so OS/2 will take another 10 years to actually... looks like I will be dead before OS/2....
>with projects such as eComStation, which seeks to >produce updated versions of the operating system >and applications that run under it,
Hardly 'seeks'... they are doing it, it is real, and it works....
>and Project Odin, which works to provide a way to >run 32-bit Windows applications under OS/2. But >claims that OS/2 is alive and well are mostly of >the sort of claim that imparts such characteristics >to Elvis Presley.
Wasn't he one og the Beatles...? Running fine on SMP, with JFS, and blows Linux and windozes out of the water in terms of high volume multitasking...and running winbloze apps under Odin quite necely thank you....
>The ironies abound: A hopeful community waits in >hope that a federal judge will slap down Microsoft >and level the playing field. Quality even now does >not govern the success of operating systems or >application software.
It is of no interest to me what US psuedojustice system attempts to do to mickeysoft.... the point is I do not, will not, and never have done business with mickey soft.... because I have chosen to use a better alternative.....
>IBM, which failed with its Microkernel project, now >offers a single operating system with all of its >computers except the consumer desktop models. A >better desktop operating system exists -- John C. >Dvorak mentiuoned it, and this site is devoted to >it -- and already the talk is that it's only good >for businesses and less of a desktop operating >system than even OS/2 was. What was it about "those >who fail to learn from the lessons of history . . >."?
Singularly appropriate last sentence.... why indeed should so many continue to pander to the greatest organised crime in commercial history, and continue to buy mickeysoft overpriced abandonware... (Buy XP today, and get your incompatible upgrade same time next year...LOL)
An otherwise very informative article was ruined by the authors laziness in being unable to do even one hours research into the current state of OS/2... if you are going to comment on something at least have the courtesy to your readership to actual know something about what you are attempting to pontificate upon....
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>Post Script: In the years since this article was >written, independent developers have kept OS/2 on >life support,
Not to mention a plethorial of regular fixpaks since 1996 from IBM... latest Jan'02... and IBM has stated support thro'2008.... so OS/2 will take another 10 years to actually... looks like I will be dead before OS/2....
>with projects such as eComStation, which seeks to >produce updated versions of the operating system >and applications that run under it,
Hardly 'seeks'... they are doing it, it is real, and it works....
>and Project Odin, which works to provide a way to >run 32-bit Windows applications under OS/2. But >claims that OS/2 is alive and well are mostly of >the sort of claim that imparts such characteristics >to Elvis Presley.
Wasn't he one og the Beatles...?
Running fine on SMP, with JFS, and blows Linux and windozes out of the water in terms of high volume multitasking...and running winbloze apps under Odin quite necely thank you....
>The ironies abound: A hopeful community waits in >hope that a federal judge will slap down Microsoft >and level the playing field. Quality even now does >not govern the success of operating systems or >application software.
It is of no interest to me what US psuedojustice system attempts to do to mickeysoft.... the point is I do not, will not, and never have done business with mickey soft.... because I have chosen to use a better alternative.....
>IBM, which failed with its Microkernel project, now >offers a single operating system with all of its >computers except the consumer desktop models. A >better desktop operating system exists -- John C. >Dvorak mentiuoned it, and this site is devoted to >it -- and already the talk is that it's only good >for businesses and less of a desktop operating >system than even OS/2 was. What was it about "those >who fail to learn from the lessons of history . . >."?
Singularly appropriate last sentence....
why indeed should so many continue to pander to the greatest organised crime in commercial history, and continue to buy mickeysoft overpriced abandonware...
(Buy XP today, and get your incompatible upgrade same time next year...LOL)
An otherwise very informative article was ruined by the authors laziness in being unable to do even one hours research into the current state of OS/2... if you are going to comment on something at least have the courtesy to your readership to actual know something about what you are attempting to pontificate upon....
Bloody amateurs...