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

[Eric M. Hopper]

On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 14:29, madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:
> Or is this list only about bashing m$ and praising *nix, and all other
> alternatives aren't to be spoken of? 

No, you can hype BeOS (which I know little of, but I do know has some
very interesting OS innovations designed for the kind of mass data
movement good for media) all you want.  You can extol MacOS user
interfaces all day and not hear a peep from me.  You can tell me
FreeBSD's networking stack is better than Linuxes (because it is).  You
can say all kinds of true things on here about all kinds of OS ideas,
and I'll be just fine.

But, putting OS/2 up on some pedestal and saying how spectacularly
wonderful it is will draw my ire because it simply isn't.  It's
interesting at best, and fraught with its own major design flaws.  It
was better designed, and significantly more stable than Windows.  It
also did an excellent job of running DOS and Windows 3.1 applications. 
But it was not, in any respect that I'm aware of, an innovator or leader
in OS or UI design.  (Well, perhaps their DOS boxes were innovative. 
I'd really like to know how they made that work as well as they
apparently did.)

Have fun (if at all possible),
-- 
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