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Very Remedial OS/2 Question
voidmain:
OS2 is *much* closer to DOS/Windows than it is to any form of UNIX. There is *no* resemblance to UNIX/Linux in OS/2. XFree was ported to OS/2 just like it has been ported to run on everything else (even Windows). IBM had nothing to do with porting XFree to OS/2. OS/2 sucks if you ask me. I worked *in-depth* with it for about 5 years running a critical distributed processing system of around 50 OS/2 Warp 3 (and Warp 4 towards the end) workstations. Even Windows is better than OS/2 at this point, however, back in the day OS/2 was better than any DOS/Windows that was available at the time.
[ January 28, 2003: Message edited by: void main ]
pkd_lives:
I fully agree. There is nothing I can think of that makes OS/2 a better option than what is/was out there in the Unix field.
I remember the Y2K update, there were 30 floppy disks that had to be run in one after the other (this was the update for warp 4). The joke was it still failed Y2K, after everything changed the dates read wrong in the file manager on the files created after Y2K. Still hasn't been fixed as far as I know. God only knows what else was not fixed.
I mean I hated it but you (void main) sound really angry about it.
voidmain:
Well I had to support it and write programs for it. The memory model is the most unstable and leak prone I have ever seen. And instead of blue screens you just get STOP E and STOP D errors. :) Not very good when it's the most critical system a large and well known company uses for it's revenue system. :) I actually converted the entire department from OS/2 and Netware to NT4, and ported all the processing scripts from REXX to Perl. That's how bad it was. I did upgrade the database server from an old Sun to a new fairly large Sun server though. I do have my limits.
[ January 28, 2003: Message edited by: void main ]
LorKorub:
It is Mac OS 9.4. I guess I was wrong in stating that Mac OS is OS/2. I have no idea about operating systems that are not UNIX, and (sadly) $hitblows.
If Mac OS is UNIX-derived (which a lot of people were tooting a horn about around here), I just need to know how to get to a command line.
Calum:
MacOS versions *below* 10 (for instance your 9.x one falls into this category) are NOT based in any way on UNIX. sorry to disappoint.
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