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

[John Poltorak]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:45:27PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote:
> John Poltorak wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 06:54:25PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote:
> >
> >>Jeff Wasel wrote:
> >>
> >>>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.

Just to clarify... we are talking about OS/2 rather than Windows aren't 
we?...

OS/2 was the first mainstream OS which included threading in the kernel.


-- 
John