Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:04:51 -0800 From: "Dr. MacEnstein" <bangpath@bellsouth.net> To: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The difference between two things (Was: statically/dynamically based software) Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990128130451.007a4470@mail.atl.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.05.9901271823310.48746-100000@goodall2.u.washin gton.edu> References: <3.0.5.32.19990127210139.007bec10@mail.atl.bellsouth.net>
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At 06:35 PM 1/27/99 -0800, you wrote: >Speaking of OS/2, however, I've not heard much about it lately. Is it >growing, stable, or losing ground in terms of its user base? What's its >strongest point short of having only Windows to compete with? Well, last I heard, IBM had stopped development on it for the consumer market, and was only offering any patches/updates to it's server market that is using it. But that was a year ago and not from an industry-reliable source, so I could be way off base. All I know is that I have a friend that works for IBM here in Atlanta and he says everyone there *hates* OS/2. As I understand it, OS/2 was 32-bit at the time Windows was 16-bit. OS/2 had true multitasking, Windows did not. OS/2 was stable, again, Windows was not. But Windows (and MS-DOS before it) already had the consumer market and developed into usable products faster than OS/2. But again, I am only repeating what someone told me and haven't actually used OS/2 myself. Every once in a while, I hear of someone on a list somewhere that uses it and defends it strongly. But I hear Linux and FreeBSD much more, so I would venture to say that the free-Unix (Linux, *BSD, et al) user base is much, much larger now. -------------------------------------- Never trust a cop with a rubber glove. -------------------------------------- Andrew ---> bangpath@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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