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From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo)
Subject: [TUHS] Why BSD didn't catch on more, and Linux did
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 09:42:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzw8-Ty1U75yOSmGarJqy7hzmGLNfu5DhSet+BxS8G04Fg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACNPpeaMUSr0CyY-0+Af1WOUJoBS2H8F-opBaY2vTmKwxLiRUg@mail.gmail.com>

On 7 February 2018 at 03:27, Wesley Parish <wobblygong at gmail.com> wrote:
> OS/2 and Windows (including WinNT 3.x) just
> added a pretty-pretty interface. OS/2 was more sophisticated than
> WinNT's because OS/2 expected to share the hard drive with some other
> OS; Microsoft believed it had the computer to itself and is thus not
> as sophisticated - but they're still MS/PC/DR DOS  writ large.

I would disagree with this assessment.  NT's VMS heritage has already
been discussed.  I do not know the heritage of OS/2 but to call it DOS
is simply not true.  (Among other things, OS/2 did an excellent job of
virtualizing dosboxes. We were developing PCMCIA drivers with OS/2 in
dosboxes.  When one crashed, you simply opened up another and
continued.)

N.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-07 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-06 22:13 Dan Stromberg
2018-02-06 22:38 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-06 22:44 ` Warner Losh
2018-02-06 22:59   ` Pete Wright
2018-02-06 22:59 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-02-07  1:14   ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-06 23:02 ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-02-07  0:22   ` Andy Kosela
2018-02-07  1:02     ` Robert Brockway
2018-02-07  3:47       ` George Michaelson
2018-02-07  1:29   ` Clem Cole
2018-02-07 15:13     ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-02-07 16:59       ` Jon Forrest
2018-02-07 17:27       ` Clem Cole
2018-02-07 19:21         ` Dan Cross
2018-02-07 21:24           ` Clem Cole
2018-02-07 19:31         ` Nemo
2018-02-07 19:49         ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-02-07 19:53           ` Dan Cross
2018-02-07 20:26             ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-02-07 21:06               ` Clem Cole
2018-02-07 21:31               ` Clem Cole
2018-02-07 17:52       ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2018-02-07  8:04   ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2018-02-07  8:51   ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-02-07  8:27 ` Wesley Parish
2018-02-07  8:39   ` emanuel stiebler
2018-02-07 10:44     ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-02-07 13:14   ` Chet Ramey
2018-02-07 14:42   ` Nemo [this message]
2018-02-09  2:53     ` Wesley Parish
2018-02-11 20:22       ` Derek Fawcus
2018-02-12  0:31         ` Robert Brockway

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