From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 18 17:37:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA22277 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:37:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ormail.intel.com (ormail.intel.com [134.134.248.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA22272 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:37:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ichips.intel.com (ichips.intel.com [134.134.50.200]) by ormail.intel.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA14471; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:37:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ichips.intel.com by ichips.intel.com (8.7.4/jIII) id RAA10964; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:37:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199706190037.RAA10964@ichips.intel.com> To: The Classiest Man Alive cc: Francisco Reyes , "chat@freebsd.org" , Geir Eivind Mork Subject: Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD? :-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Jun 1997 20:16:09 PDT." Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:37:30 -0700 From: Sri Ramkrishna Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message you wr > Of course, as IBM demonstrated repeatedly that they weren't interested in > waging a serious battle over the desktop, I concluded that OS/2 was going > the way of the Amiga and that it was time to move on. By this point, the > free Unix systems (namely Linux and FreeBSD) had matured to a point of > being ready for serious use by someone who didn't want to write kernel > patches. I dunno about the Amiga. There is still a lot of developement work on it. I think the latest phase now is to re-engineer the OS much like Linux. In the end, they'll have it on every platform. I never got a chance to try OS/2. I've been told that it's a great product. The only one I've seen was a rather "ho-hum" 386 computer running at 640x480. Not very impressive. Truly though Unix machines have matured. It's unbelievable that I'm sitting at home and running all the little multimedia programs that usually only Windows can do. (ie RealAudio, Shockwave) I think this is going to keep going. > Of course, history seems to indicate that the great technology is doomed > to fail. (See preceding paragraph.) Let's just hope that never comes to > pass with FreeBSD. This is true, it's great marketing that wins. :( sri -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sriram Ramkrishna | Intel Corporation Unix System Adminstrator | MD-6 Division, Technical Support phone: 503-264-3529 | email: sramkris@ichips.intel.com MailStop:JF1-22 | location: G17 pillar -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=