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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 22:58:44 -0800
- From: Craig_Swanson@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
- Subject: OS/2 vs UNIX
- Comment-To: Juanita@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
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- J> I am in need of a reference which compares OS/2 and UNIX. I chose
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- J> to go with a UNIX workstation for development of a graphics
- J> application and need to justify myself. My main reason for
- choosing
- J> UNIX was its virtual memory capability (as I will be graphing
- heaps and
- J> heaps of time series data) which I did not believe was possible in
- mid
- J> '91 with OS/2. There is also the issue of disks speeds and memory
- J> of PCs vs graphics workstations.
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- Virtual memory, multitasking, multithreading, and interprocess
- communications have all been parts of OS/2 since version 1.0 in 1987.
- Flat 32-bit memory model (like Unix uses) is new in OS/2 2.0, and
- virtual memory is still a part of the operating system.
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