[Info-vax] OT: IBM to buy Sun

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <gptds3$q8$1 at lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>,
	m.kraemer at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) writes:
> In article <72eqiuFpiqmpU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill
> Gunshannon) writes:
>>  
>> Comparing OS/2 to VMS is like comparing a Yugo to a Porsche.
>> 
> 
> I'm not so familiar with cars (especially US ones),

Ummm...   Neither of those is American.

> so I guess in this analogy OS/2 would be the Porsche:
> it's lean, fast, has an own distinctive GUI 
> and runs on my Thinkpad which I can take
> with me anytime I want to.

And to think people here think I am the one who is anti-VMS.

Porsche's are anything but lean.  They do perfoem well, but then,
depending on your criteria, so does VMS.  OS/2 was a lame attempt
to mimic Microsoft.  It had as much chance of success as Linux
does today.

bill

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