Re: APL Book For Beginning Programmers?

The question is if this is a serious competition to the existing
operating systems

Windows for good or bad has a massive user base and no real competition
I know of besides Linux

Can OS/2 really make a comeback?

What has it got to offer I can not already get better and/or cheaper in
Winows or Linux?

I know next to nothing about OS/2
What I do know it was supposed to be what Windows became but stopped
midway
Has it made any progress since then?

Windows is coming out with a new version and it is actually very much
improved from what it has been even though they are still not improving
their disastrous file system

Linux of course a much better system is steadily growing and may well
overtake Windows and is also free

I ask again where is the niche for OS/2?

I could not care less what operating system I use as long as it works
properly and does what it is supposed to do

Apple used to be a closed system and not unlike OS/2 a half dead
operating system only weirdos wanted

They are now using Linux so they have given up having their own

Is OS/2 going to do like Apple and include Linux and extend it a bit?

I can not see anyone beeting Windows without Linux

Ted Edwards wrote:
> GerryLowry1(905)825-9582{AbilityBusinessComputerServices} wrote:
> > I assume you mean OS/2 running on an eCS notebook. ???
>
> An outfit in Germany called Serenity Systems International has made some
> sort of deal with IBM and is marketing and developing OS/2 onder the
> name eCS. See
> http://www.ecomstation.com/
> They appear to be doing a better job of marketing it than IBM did.
>
> > For most of us, AFAIK, OS/2 was murdered long ago by the evil empire.
>
> "The rumours of my demise have been greatly exagerated" Mark Twain
>
> Ted

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