[4] in OS/2_Discussion
Re: Fingers crossed...
hkon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hkon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 15 13:38:17 1992
In addition to being a high end single user operating system, it offers
external interfaces such as Presentation Manager, Database Manager, and
Communications Manager. The DB hooks up to mainframe DB's, adn the comm manager
gets to all kinds of net's. I think one of the keys, however, is opening these
to input and output from heterogeneous environments. A stand-alone beauty is
of no use in today's market.
IBM will capture its true blue customers as they rely on mainframe technology
by IBM, but to get converts it must compete dollar for dollar in terms of both
performance and interoperability with other systems.
I think it is clear to most developers that it is a superior OS from an
INTERNALS perspective to both Windows and Apple's OS (though I do not know
much about System 7). Does Sys 7 not have semaphores, queues, pipes, shared
memory, etc.?
