[Info-vax] OT: IBM to buy Sun

[Bill Pechter]

In article <72fekdFpmcofU2 at mid.individual.net>,
Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>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.
>

Oh come on.   A lame attempt to mimic Microsoft.  Get real.

OS/2 was a solid attempt at a real OS for the PC.  Microsoft was still
shipping WinNT 3.x when OS/2's Workplace shell blew it away in terms of 
ease of use and simplicity.

I was with IBM when they were pushing Warp3 and later Warp4.
There was nothing out there that was as advanced.

They had X11, TCP/IP, NFS... they didn't "embrace and extend" the standards
they implemented them.

The only problem was they got their clock cleaned when the Microsoft Office
suite became the business standard and Microsoft walked away from the 
Win32s "standard for compatibility."

Everytime Microsoft changed their API IBM had to go out and figure out how to 
keep it working in OS/2.

Also, the resources required -- mainly memory -- had a higher footprint than
Win3.x and NT3.x.

>bill
>
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