[comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d] OS/2 flame war

nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (02/25/90)

In article <25e6d6ed.26a3@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) writes:

   [lauds OS/2]

The problem with OS/2 is that it is simply Unix reimplemented.  And as Henry
Spencer point out, "those who don't understand Unix are doomed to reinvent
it, poorly".

Now, if you were a software developer, and you had the resources to make
your program work under Unix or OS/2, but not both, which would you choose?
An OS that runs only on 286es, or an OS that runs on 286s AND everything else
imaginable (and a few that aren't).

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