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

[Hans Reiser]

John Poltorak wrote:

>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.
>
Threads were not an MS invention.