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000047_icon-group-sender _Wed Apr 28 04:41:04 1993.msg
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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sun, 2 May 1993 06:18:51 MST
Date: 28 Apr 93 04:41:04 GMT
From: cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!plyon@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Lyon)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
Subject: Re: OS/2 & Icon (was Lack of robustness in 32-bit DOS version)
Message-Id: <PLYON.93Apr27214104@emx.cc.utexas.edu>
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Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
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Well, since I may be the only OS/2 user of Icon there is (or so I
sometimes imagine, at least :-), I suppose I should speak to this.
First of all, DOS support in OS/2 2.0 is quite good, though
fine-tuning the DOS settings for a particular programme can be a bit
of chore (there are almost 50 items on the settings menu for a DOS
session!). Secondly, OS/2 does have most of the features of a "real
OS" (TM), including one that most versions of UNIX do not have, namely
multi-threading. (The major difference is that OS/2 is not multi-user,
save by means of networking; the software for this must be purchased
separately).
As for utilities, provided one has ftp access, one can get virtually
the entire GNU suite, including Emacs, two ports of gcc, flex,
bison, diff, gawk, perl, rcs & cvs, bash, the text and
file utilities, M4, tar, and so on, not to mention the GMD compiler
toolkit (aka Cocktail), gnuplot, emTeX, and serveral literate
programming tools (FunnelWeb, Cweb, and SpiderWeb). In addition, the X
Window interface for Icon is also available in a OS/2 Presentation
Manager version.
As a development environment, then, OS/2 2.0 is not inferior to most Unix
set-ups. Besides, if one has the disk space, one can always use a dual
boot set-up with OS/2 2.0 and linux; judging by some of the traffic in
the OS/2 newsgroups, it would seem a fair number of folks have done
exactly that.
Ciao,
Paul Lyon