[Info-vax] OT: IBM to buy Sun

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <72fekdFpmcofU2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill
Gunshannon) writes:
> 
> Ummm...   Neither of those is American.

OK. So it seems I know as little about cars as you know
about OS/2 (see below)

> > 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.

It's not my fault that VMS is not as cool as Porsche.
 
> Porsche's are anything but lean. 

Almost as flat as my thinkpad running OS/2. 

> They do perfoem well, but then,
> depending on your criteria, so does VMS. 

Well, a Porsche is meant to impress people,
especially females. Can I do the same with VMS ?

> OS/2 was a lame attempt
> to mimic Microsoft.  

It was meant to overcome the lame attempts of M$ to
create something that could be called an OS.
Most of what still is lame in OS/2 originates
from M$ (they were co-inventors until 2.x)