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

[Joe Moore]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:02:39PM +0000, John Poltorak wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 06:54:25PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > 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.

I believe Hans was listing the innovations^H of Windows, not OS/2.

--Joe
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