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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!cam-orl!root
  2. From: thg@cam-orl.co.uk (Tim Glauert)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: OS/2 Needs a Supervisor mode!
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug18.103538.15477@cam-orl.co.uk>
  6. Date: 18 Aug 92 10:35:38 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug14.031238.18568@msi.com> <1992Aug15.011002.25592@microsoft.com> <1992Aug15.230755.14630@chpc.utexas.edu> <1992Aug16.001819.14010@unixg.ubc.ca> <mcdonald.211@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
  8. Sender: root@cam-orl.co.uk (Operator)
  9. Followup-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
  10. Organization: Olivetti Research Ltd, Cambridge, England.
  11. Lines: 12
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  13. In article <mcdonald.211@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes:
  14. |> In article <1992Aug16.001819.14010@unixg.ubc.ca> ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
  15. |> >some people have complained about OS/2 not having multiuser capabilities
  16. |> 
  17. |> You want Unix, or, even better, VMS or an IBM or Unisys mainframe operating 
  18. |> system.
  19.  
  20. Or VMS++, which is Windows NT :-)
  21.  
  22. |> You know where to find them.
  23.  
  24. ... but you'll have to wait 6 months or so for NT proper.
  25.