Path: csiph.com!news.redatomik.org!news.uzoreto.com!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!peer03.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer04.fr7!futter-mich.highwinds-media.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad!fx03.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Subject: OT: About OS/2 (Was:Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-10 References: <4a010466d8bf0797547c4cd089c0402f@dizum.com> <061120181234479589%nospam@nospam.invalid> <061120181255515444%nospam@nospam.invalid> From: Wolf K User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 16 Message-ID: <8tCED.328729$9O2.222590@fx03.iad> X-Complaints-To: abuse(at)newshosting.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 14:16:36 UTC Organization: Newshosting.com - Highest quality at a great price! www.newshosting.com Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 09:16:36 -0500 X-Received-Bytes: 2220 X-Received-Body-CRC: 4063463528 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:119203 comp.os.linux.advocacy:475922 alt.comp.os.windows-10:78022 On 2018-11-06 20:29, Alan Baker wrote: > > Hence my statement: without OS/2, there was not sufficient reason to pay > the high cost of the PS/2. OS/2 was ahead of its time, too. Still is IMO. It used a VM to run Windows better than MS-DOS did. Linux would be the winner of the OS wars if that facility was baked into its kernel: Imagine being able to run any OS under Linux.... But wishing doesn't make pigs fly. -- Wolf K kirkwood40.blogspot.com "Gentics is not genealogy." (Gragham Coop, Ph.D.)