[Info-vax] Reading Gordon Bell's VAX strategy document

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On Monday, September 25, 2023 at 5:37:22 PM UTC-7, Chris Townley wrote:

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> I still miss OS/2 - it was great to use, but a bugger to program the 
> presentation layer, or whatever it was called 
 
I did character mode programming on OS/2 back to version 1.0.

One of the early ones that I did was to port GNU utilities including diff
and grep.  That wasn't quite as nice as a full Unix system, but not so bad
for development and debugging.  

Much of that was working on programs that would run under DOS for
others, but I ran mine on OS/2.  

At some point, I would allocate segments directly from OS/2 instead
of using malloc().  That allowed for full memory protection, read or write,
outside of any array.