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On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 01:53:46 UTC, Victor Bien <nospam.vbien@attglobal.net> wrote:

>    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.
> 

Victor, that's a nice installment you write, so I quote it in its entirety.

I do fundamentally agree with you.

My only concern about what "plays out" in the months and years ahead
is hardware:  if the RIAA, Disney, et al, get their way, we may not just lose
"fair use copyright" (in the U.S., at least) but equally worse, we will not be 
able to get new device drivers for the "schlock" that's on the "new PC horizon".  

If that happens, I'll be spending more at my local, used computer shop,
and hopefully garner enough spares before I croak.

-- 
Best,
Erick Andrews
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