[Info-vax] OT: IBM to buy Sun

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <gpu1l0$854$1 at lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>,
	m.kraemer at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) writes:
> 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)

Oh, I think I know more about OS/2 than your think.  :-)

> 
>> > 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.

Lot's of people here think VMS is very cool.

>  
>> Porsche's are anything but lean. 
> 
> Almost as flat as my thinkpad running OS/2. 

Not sure what "flat" means.  But especially today, Porsches are anything
but "lean".  Now, the 356, that was lean.

> 
>> 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 ?

I have never owned any sports car, especially my Porshes or
Alfa's for the purpose of impressing anyone.  I owned them
based on their ability to perform, as sports cars.

> 
>> 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)

Yeah, and just look at how they took over the business from MS after they
split!!  Even the power of IBM couldn't make OS/2 a market success.

bill
 

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