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- From: si0_tb90020@debet.nhh.no
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: os/2 in byte magazine -- planned use of mach kernel!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.155721.904@debet.nhh.no>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 15:57:21 MET
- References: <1992Nov17.170105.27200@nosc.mil> <1992Nov18.105730.27496@donau.et.tudelft.nl> <1992Nov18.184602.13761@nosc.mil> <8+y1_sh@rpi.edu>
- Organization: Norwegian School of Economics
- Lines: 42
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- In article <8+y1_sh@rpi.edu>, gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile) writes:
- > there is an small article on page 38 of dec. byte mag that
- > says that IBM is planning to come out with a version of os/2
- > based on the mach kernel!! James Cannavino, IBM vice pres
- > & general manager of Personal Systems line basically claims
- > that the new version will be released in 18 to 24 mos, and
- > will be able to run dos, windows, os/2 and UNIX programs !!
- > I only have one question... why didn't they do this in the
- > first place? If they had done this first place, I would
- > probably be convinced that os/2 had more of a future, and
- > would be running it on my machine.
- >
- > Mike
- > go IBM!
- >
- > reprinted from byte w/out permission
- >
- Has been rumours about this for a long time. There are a few drawbacks
- to this though.
-
- Though the Mach kernel is a nice peace of software, it is not very
- efficient. It was not created to be. And to have a OS based on the Mach
- kernel, you either need to rewrite it a lot (like NeXT), or you will
- need lots of processing power (when you want to run OS/2, DOS, Windwos
- and Unix on top of Mach).
-
- When this version of OS/2 comes out - be ready to buy the latest in
- processor, RAM, and HD. Probably 486 and better, lots of RAM (16 as a
- minimum ans so on).
-
- What would have happended to OS/2 if it had such hardware demands now?
-
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- | Terje Bergesen | terjeb@eik.ii.uib.no | si0_tb90020@debet.nhh.no |
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