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

[Hans Reiser]

John Poltorak wrote:

>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.
>
>
Andy Tevanian was the inventor, and he added them to Mach while at CMU.

Hans