On Friday 01 February 2002 09:35 am, Felix Miata wrote: > 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 [...]
Not in my experience. I was an OS/2 Warp and Warp Connect user. The SYSTEM wouldn't crash often but the GUI would and with its single input queue hanging up, preventing ANY and ALL inputs, it might as well have totally hung. I had to hard reboot every time that happened. Sure, it didn't happen anywhere near as often as a windoze crash, but saying the system didn't crash but while you are prevented from inputing ANYTHING is equivalent to a crash. I installed Redhat 5.0 on a then dual-boot windoze-OS/2 box and had a triple boot system for a while. I then noticed I wasn't ever really rebooting to OS/2 AND I planned to upgrade my system hardware to a point that OS/2 simply didn't know what to do anymore so off it went into the trashbin. In the day I loved OS/2 but it had its inescapable problems and is now barely better off than BeOS. That single input queue was a very real killer in practical terms irrespective of whether or not TECHNICALLY the system didn't crash. praedor
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