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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!rzsun2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de!swt6!hess
  3. From: hess@swt6.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Hauke Hess)
  4. Subject: Re: Media coverage (Electronic Engineer Times)
  5. Message-ID: <hess.711706754@swt6>
  6. Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
  7. Organization: University of Hamburg, FRG
  8. References: <PSHUANG.92Jul20144125@beeblebrox.mit.edu>
  9. Distribution: comp
  10. Date: 21 Jul 92 08:19:14 GMT
  11. Lines: 51
  12.  
  13. pshuang@athena.mit.edu (Ping-Shun Huang) writes:
  14.  
  15. Yet another WOMBAT Chart:
  16.  
  17. > |                 WINDOWS NT COVERS ALL THE BASES
  18. > |                 -------------------------------
  19. > |         Primary features supported by different operating systems
  20. > | 
  21. > |                         Windows 3.1     OS/2 2.0        Windows NT
  22. > |                         ===========     ========        ==========
  23. > | Demand paging                                               X
  24.  
  25. Er, what do we call OS/2 Paging? I thought it was demand paging.
  26.  
  27. > | Fully 32-bit internally                                     X
  28.  
  29. NT isn`t yet fully 32Bit because of its backward compatibility to windows 3.x
  30.  
  31. > | 32-bit I/O drivers          X                               X
  32.  
  33. Yes, OS/2 has 32Bit IO drivers also!
  34.  
  35. > | Continue on fault           X                               X
  36.  
  37. Oh, what does Windows do on fault? It continues, fingers crossed. What
  38. does NT does? We don`t know. What does OS/2 on fault? It closes the program
  39. that caused it, but continues.
  40.  
  41. > | Separate address space                      X               X
  42. > |     for apps.
  43. > | Fully pre-emptive                           X               X
  44. > |     multitasking
  45. > | Symmetric multiprocessing                                   X
  46. > |     support
  47. > | C-2 level security                                          X
  48. > | Available on non-X86                                        X
  49.  
  50. OS/2 will be available on non X86 this fall.
  51.  
  52. > | Extensible (POSIX...)                                       X
  53. > | High-performance                                            X
  54. > |     client and server
  55.  
  56. What is then LAN Server, the TCP/IP package and that stuff for OS/2?
  57.  
  58.  
  59. This chart is just another proof that Microsoft lies!
  60.  
  61. Hauke
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