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William Park opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Fri Nov 28 03:55:00 UTC 2003


On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:13:50PM -0500, Taavi Burns wrote:
> For all the praise you've placed on OS/2, I do suggest you have a look
> at OSX as a modern implementation.  No, it probably won't match up
> to the industrial strength of OS/2, but it's probably the closest modern
> equivalent, and 10 times more UNIXy.  ;)  Quite a shame that OS pre-X
> lasted so long in its singletasking hole.

If OS/2 is that good, then maybe IBM will repackage it someday.  I
suspect that the fact that OS/2 is for Intel's CPU has some bearing.
Maybe, IBM will sell it to China/India on PowerPC platform.

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