[Am-info] O/S 2 support - slightly off topic (my apologies)

[Hans Reiser]

Jeff Wasel wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>First off, thanks again to Roy and Mitch for helping me on my request for
>the M$ "innovation" list. It was most lethal in a paper I just did. On to
>other things...
>
>I just built a box to run a copy of O/2 Warp v.3. ( I got it a couple years
>back and haven't had an extra machine to load it on) The software bundle
>also included a copy of Lotus' Office suite as well.
>
>My question to all you O/S folks is: what other applications are available
>and from what sources?
>Also, to what level is IBM supporting O/S 2? I know several of you make your
>living working with this product and I'm curious as to the sustainability of
>the market. As part of my research I am putting together arguments for
>alternatives to M$ that can be offered to a large health care operation here
>in the UK.
>
>Feel free to reply to me off-line at jeff@wasel.com
>
>Thanks gang!
>
>Jeff
>
>
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I think that their thing which takes signatures of blocks, and tries to 
share identical blocks between files, is innovative.  This is the only 
thing I know of that was innovative.

Hans