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In article <5ge4f5$lqg@info.cyf-kr.edu.pl>,
Andrzej Eilmes <eilmes@gembon.ch.uj.edu.pl> wrote:
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|For reliable programs you need reliable system, not OS/2!

If you know as little about what you teach your students as you know
about operating systems, I really pity their future employers.
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|- is OS/2 stable?    NO!
There are between 10 and 30 million heavy-duty users in big companies
using OS/2. IBM do not give out the figures on corporate accounts, so we
will never know exactly how many. But the vast majority of those systems
run day out and day in without any major problems or mishaps. Maybe they
konow something you do not know, or maybe they are smart enough to get
belp to set up something they are not trained in. Maybe they even take
a course before they try to set up everything in a system they know
nothing about. Or they may go as far as to make sure that the hardware
they buy is suitable for the software they want to use on it. Whatever
the reason, they seem to do a lot better than you. Either they are
an incredibly lucky collection of super skilled ultra-geniouses, or
ther may be the off chance that you do something wrong.
Apply Occam's razor to find the best hypothesis.
 
|- is there local security with access rights?  NO!
This means you did not care to install security on your systems, right?
Or maybe you did not even find out what to install and how?

|- are you able to compile and run large programs? NO!
Sadly true, there seems to be a 512MB limit on user executables.
And a full rebuild of applications with more than a million lines
of code takes entirely too long, wether in c or COBOL. 
|  I have to use UNIX machine: under OS/2 I can compile my FORTRAN
|  program but IBM link386.exe cannot link it. Of course there's no 
|  description of linker options. 
Of course not. Or maybe you did not bother to install the Developer's Toolkit?
 
 The following list describes manuals available online that might be of 
 interest to users who develop applications for OS/2 Warp Version 4. 
 The OS/2 Warp Version 4 Online Technical Library provides both guidance 
 and reference information. 

 The library includes the following online books, which are located in 
 the \TOOLKIT\BOOK subdirectory. You can also access them from the 
 Desktop by opening the Toolkit folder and then the Toolkit Information 
 folder. (The titles in the list below reflect the associated book icon 
 names in the Toolkit Information folder.) 

      ALP Programming Guide and Reference   
      Bidirectional Language Programming Guide   
      C Library Reference   
      Control Program Programming Guide and Reference 
      DMI Programmer's Guide   
      DPI Programmer's Guide   
      GPI Guide and Reference   
      IBM OS/2 Server Family Programming Reference   
      IPF Programming Guide and Reference   
      Kernel Debugger Reference   
      Multimedia Application Programming Guide   
      Multimedia Programming Reference   
      Multimedia Subsystem Programming Guide   
      Object REXX Programming Guide for OS/2   
      Open32 Programming Guide and Reference   
      OpenDoc Programming Guide   
      OpenDoc Programming Reference   
      OpenDoc User Interface Guidelines   
      OpenGL Programming Reference   
      Open Scripting Architecture Guide and Reference 
      PartMeister User's Guide   
      Presentation Manager Programming Guide and Reference   
      Problem Determination Guide and Reference   
      RXSTRING.DOC   
      SOM Programming Guide   
      SOM Programming Reference   
      TCP/IP Programming Reference   
      Tools Reference   
      Unicode Programming Reference   
      Windows Sockets   
      Workplace Shell Programming Guide   
      Workplace Shell Programming Reference   
  
|  you will say this means "tons of tech support", I would say this
|  is basic documentation
|  of course this is only a example: the point is that for anything
|   more complicated you need Unix
Yes, to do things really complicated Unix has advantages. Development
in OS/2 is just too simple. Unless you insist on doing it the hard
way and without learning how to do it. It took me a whole day.

|- is there OS/2 software (like editors) which can be replacement
|  for Microsoft Office or Perfect Office?       NO!
The funny thing is that I replaced the last MS stuff two years ago.
But I only do such kid stuff as writing technical reports with diagrams,
footnotes, endnotes, sidebars and formulas. And some project scheduling
in CA-SuperProject. And a bit of newsletter publishing. And a little
writing in Norwegian, English, German and French. And some computations 
in REXX with 24 significant digits. And a multiuser database in AREV/2.
And a DB2/2 database. And some software prototyping in CA-Realizer or
Smalltalk. And some software development in VA C++ and VA COBOL. With
some assembler routines using ALP. And some subprograms in PROLOG.
And two different WWW servers for my intranet. And some fumbling
tests to learn Java programming. So the only Microsoft program I
occationally run is Freecell.

The IBM Internet Connection Server Secure will handle outside connections
in case it should be required. Unfortunately it has been developed in
the US, so it is only available with 40 bit keys. Hopefully they will
relocate development to some other, less restrictive country.