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

[John Poltorak]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 06:54:25PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote:
> 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

> 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.

What about threads? They were in place from day one - about 15 years ago.

Extended Attributes are nice too, but I don't think they have ever been 
fully exploited by users or developers.

WorkPlace Shell is still a marvellous user interface even though it came 
out ten years ago. Windows is still so primitive in comparison.

 
> Hans


-- 
John