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[198.27.14.65]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l6sm2319801ioc.15.2019.08.29.11.47.39 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 29 Aug 2019 11:47:39 -0700 (PDT) To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org References: <13c5c36e-c84d-e020-d09e-51c8c502dc6d@kilonet.net> <283e3cc2-42ec-a554-602f-5fb67eca9e40@gmail.com> From: Nemo Nusquam Message-ID: <8cb953ef-ef6d-fdfa-76a4-1074cf46f598@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:40:07 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; SunOS sun4u; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <283e3cc2-42ec-a554-602f-5fb67eca9e40@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [TUHS] If not Linux, then what? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On 08/28/19 18:27, William Pechter wrote (in part): > On 8/28/2019 4:27 PM, Adam Thornton wrote: >> I was an ardent OS/2 supporter for a long time. Sure, IBM's anemic >> marketing, and their close-to-outright-hostility to 3rd-party >> developers didn't help. But what killed it, really, was how damn >> good its 16-bit support was. It *was* a better DOS than DOS and a >> better Windows than 3.11fW. So no one wrote to the relatively tiny >> market of 32-bit OS/2. >> > OS/2 was slick and if they could've kept the W\indows 3.x > compatibility (the Win32S was a sliding target that Microsoft kept > changing. There was a pretty decent Unix work-alike ported to the top > of OS/2 that made most of the public domain and open source (the term > didn't exist yet) stuff available. > > I could telnet into the box and run a pretty slick Unix work-alike shell. Indeed -- forgive my nostalgia here... We were developing a DOS-based PC-Card (often incorrectly called a PCMCIA card). With OS/2, you opened up a DOS box. If the driver crashed, you just opened up another and went on. Under Windoze, the whole box crashed (and sometimes took the file-system with it). We used a combination of Eberhard Mattes' emx, the MKS toolkit, and case-sensitive file-systems to give us a reasonable approximation. N.