From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 18 18:39:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA25278 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 18:39:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (xtal131.xtalwind.net [205.245.61.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA25273 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 18:39:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (zeus.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA06273; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:39:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:39:28 -0400 (EDT) From: jack X-Sender: jack@zeus.xtalwind.net To: Jamie Bowden cc: "Larry S. Marso" , Francisco Reyes , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD? :-) In-Reply-To: <199706182022.QAA12265@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Larry S. Marso wrote: > > > I'm one of them, too (after a brief tour of Linux-land). OS/2 has a > > superior object oriented GUI, the server for which is multithreaded; X > > servers are not! (ready to receive technical FLAME if I'm mistaken). > > But I actually prefer off-the-shelf UNIX apps. > > I am one of those as well. OS/2's GUI is awesomely built. Too bad IBM > hired their own marketing staff to sell it. They're good with the Fortune 500, but in the retail market IBM couldn't sell $10 bills for $5 each. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------