> Filesystem, OS/2 is oriented to drive letters, while Unix is oriented to mount points; while Unix does have drive information under /dev, it's not of concern to normal users.
OS/2 doesn't have links and symbolic links, Not all Unix file systems have extended attributes. > threads, AFAIK, OS/2 doesn't have threads. > commands The commands in OS/2 are very close to PC-DOS; they are very different from those in Unix. Similarly, the shells are very different. The only points of similarity are piping and redirection. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Jon Perryman <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2024 2:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Rexx is quite cool, flexible, powerful, feature-rich, thank you! (Re: z/OS 3.1 Enhancements & Support News On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 17:32:20 +0000, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: >In what way is OS/2 remotely similar to Unix? The design concepts are very similar. The leap from OS/2 to Unix is fairly simple. , multi-tasking to name a few. z/OS on the other hand has a radically different design philosopjhy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
