Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On 01 Feb 2002 05:51:01 -0600, Mitch Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 20:53, Lee Roberts wrote:
> > > On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 12:36 PM, Gerard Perreault wrote: > > > > You can expect a feirce battle ahead. They are already trying to diversify, > > > > the X box is an example. Pretty soon, products like Lindows, VMware, Wine and > > > > the likes will make M$-Windows a sub-system, something running under the > > > > control of another major OS, and with time it will be less and less used even > > > > if available. > > > IBM had a similar concept when OS/2 Warp was released. It failed even > > > though OS/2 is much better than Windows, IMO. Better luck with Linux........ OS/2 v2 ran windoze 3.x software and still does. To run newer windoze software under OS/2 requires Odin or VPC. OS/2 remains easier to use than either windoze or Linux. Like with Linux, uptime in OS/2 is frequently measured in months rather than minutes. If any of the Linux distros didn't make DOSEMU so difficult to actually use I might be able to use it full time myself. I've installed about seven different Linux distros without once getting Quattro Pro for DOS or WordPerfect for DOS or any other common DOS app to run. > > Wasn't OS/2 a forerunner of Windows NT? Seems like I recall reading a > > long time ago that OS/2 was a collaborative effort between Microsoft and > > IBM. For whatever reason, the two companies quit the venture, and > > Microsoft "stole" the concepts of OS/2 and made NT. > MS and IBM 'co-developed' OS/2 (in reality, MS did almost all the work) until > version 1.3. From that point, the two split, forking the code base in the > process. IBM continued OS/2 development to 2.0, while MS turned their code into > NT 3.1 (after hiring several core VMS engineers). OS/2 is at version 4.51 as of June 2001. I'm writing this using OS/2 4.52 beta. It is also being OEM'd at http://www.ecomstation.com/. That product is expected to shortly be using VPC to run Linux and windoze software as well as native apps. -- "Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in his ways." Psalm 128:1 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
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