From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 18 21:13:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA03979 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:13:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from suntan.tandem.com (suntan.tandem.com [192.216.221.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA03974 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:13:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Lehey Received: from papillon.lemis.com by suntan.tandem.com (8.6.12/suntan5.970212) id VAA24675; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:13:36 -0700 Received: (grog@localhost) by papillon.lemis.com (8.8.4/8.6.12) id KAA00354; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 10:04:22 +0800 (HKT) Message-Id: <199706190204.KAA00354@papillon.lemis.com> Subject: Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD? :-) In-Reply-To: <199706182022.QAA12265@gatekeeper.itribe.net> from Jamie Bowden at "Jun 18, 97 04:21:52 pm" To: jamie@itribe.net (Jamie Bowden) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 10:04:21 +0800 (HKT) Cc: lsmarso@panix.com, francisco@natserv.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Reply-to: grog@FreeBSD.ORG (Greg Lehey) WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~grog X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jamie Bowden writes: > 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. How times have changed. Used to be a time that IBM's products were so-so, and their salesmen the world's best. Greg