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   Despite the Wall St Journal declaring the "OS/2 is dead" back in 1990 
or 91 and the prevarications of IBM management OS/2 has continued to 
thrive.  Despite Gerstner's (the previous IBM CEO) lack of support OS/2 
Warp 3 received 42 or more "Fixpacks" (equivalent to M$'s "service 
packs") since 1996.  These included Y2k fixes.

   Warp 4 came out in 1998 I think and received at least 16 fixpacks and 
many device driver packs as hardware technology advanced.  Around 2000 
the kernel was further developed and there are a large list of them 
marking progress over time.  The current one is called 14.093_W4.  The 
current 4.51 and 4.52 versions has introduced LVM and JFS amongst other 
things.  Logical Volume Managers allows you to control which drive 
letter is assigned to which partition and Journaling Files System brings 
the Unix world to the PC.  With the modern large hard drives disk 
cleanup which must be done if there is a unscheduled shutdown becomes 
very time consuming.  With JFS the cleanup mechanism only has to look up 
the journal for any unwritten sectors and write them - a much quicker 
process.  Also with JFS the Unix concept of "mounting" partitions is 
implemented on the PC.  You can dynamically mount disks from anywhere 
accessible onto a JFS volume and enlarge the volume on the fly.

   I continue to use OS/2 because of excellent applications which like 
rocks hardly date.  It networks easily with Windoze machine to which I 
now have three connected.  Each machine does what it does best and OS/2 
is certainly not something I can do without.

   If I had my life all over again I may be on Linux but OS/2 is still 
hard to beat.  It's a shame that it lost the marketing battle because if 
all those Windoze apps ran on OS/2 life would be much better!  When OS/2 
sinks into your bones you realise how shockingly flimsy Windoze is.