peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (05/21/91)
> > FIFOs (I'd call them "named pipes", but I don't want to confuse > > the OS/2oids in the audience) > > sockets of various flavors > > S5 message queues > > S5 shared memory > Semaphores (xenix and SVID), and xenix shared memory. Plus, various RPC methods, plain pipes and PTYs. And Mach messages. Luckily nobody still uses multiplexed files (remember them?). -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"
chip@osh3.OSHA.GOV (Chip Yamasaki) (05/21/91)
In <E_FBRQ6@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >> > FIFOs (I'd call them "named pipes", but I don't want to confuse >> > the OS/2oids in the audience) >> > sockets of various flavors >> > S5 message queues >> > S5 shared memory >> Semaphores (xenix and SVID), and xenix shared memory. >Plus, various RPC methods, plain pipes and PTYs. >And Mach messages. >Luckily nobody still uses multiplexed files (remember them?). >-- >Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; >Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?" Why would anybody want to compare OS/2 and Unix anyhow? When I first heard the announcements of OS/2 I though it was a major mistake. Why would you want to invest all that money in a system that can only serve one user. I don't care to hear about any hacking either, I'm sure you could support multiple users under OS/2 (I seem to recall such a product), but haven't we been hacked to death enough by DOS? Personally, I like the idea of having a box with a command line if I want it, a GUI if I don't, support for multiple processors and huge memory space, and the capability to add more users and terminals if I like. I've heard some lame statements like: "I'm the only one who uses the computer". That's fine until someone else in the household or business "develops a need". Basically the questions is not "OS/2, better than Unix?", but more like "OS/2, what's the point?". -- -- Charles "Chip" Yamasaki chip@oshcomm.osha.gov
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (05/23/91)
>Plus, various RPC methods, I didn't count them because they're generally either implemented atop sockets or atop streams/TLI. >plain pipes I didn't count them, either, because in many implementations they're just FIFOs without names.