Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 16:14:53 -0500 (EST) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: Studded@dal.net (Studded) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD ignorants Message-ID: <199712022114.QAA17065@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <34846BCE.938C373B@dal.net> from "Studded" at Dec 2, 97 12:13:02 pm
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Doug White wrote: > [moving to -chat] > > Sue Blake wrote: > > > > On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Doug White wrote: > > > > > I don't see this happening anytime soon, with the number of large sites > > > depending on FreeBSD for their livelihood. > > > > I used to run OS/2, and heard this frequently there too. > > "Not soon" always comes around sooner than we expect. > > Actually the business end of OS/2 isn't going anywhere. Almost all > ATM's run on it, as do most POS systems (those scanner/cash register > doomahackers). There's lots of other business/server applications that > OS/2 excels at, and is placed in the top of various niches. It's the > desktop market that IBM is abandoning. In fact y'all can blame IBM, and > especially their complete lack of interest/ability to support win32 > stuff for inflicting me on you with increasing frequency. :) Actually, it's the problems with Microsoft changing Win32 daily that made them give up. My problem is there's no almost no scanner support for OS/2 which made me look to Win95/Win3.1 to get something running at my last job (at IBM). > I'm actually staying booted in FreeBSD for days at a time now, with only a > couple OS/2 and windows apps forcing me to reboot, and that becomes less > frequent as I learn new Unix/X tools. Of course there are a lot of good > things about running FreeBSD too, and I'm enjoying the learning > experience. > That's the fun of it. I went from Vax/Vms to Unix, to Windows/DOS, to VM and OS/2 (at IBM) and to Win95 and NT now as well as Unix. I've got Win3.1, Win95, OS/2 Warp 4, and FreeBSD running at home on the net. > Working for a microsoft-os-free world, > Would be nice, eh? I'm still fighting to keep my Unix mail support alive. (Exchange -- ugh) > Doug (Hey, I can dream can't I? :) > Bill +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bill/Carolyn Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive | Tinton Falls, New Jersey 07724 | | 908-389-3592 | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. | | pechter@shell.monmouth.com | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | This message brought to you by the letters PDP and the number 11. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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