Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2243 mails)

[Larry Stotler <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Philipp Thomas <pth@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> That was a feature of the file system, not the desktop and are nothing
> GNOME or KDE could implement on their own. POSIX extended attributes could
> possibly be used for similiar purposes, but then you would have to go and
> adapt every utility that somehow deals with files to also use them (which
> had to be done for all tools ported to OS/2).

The WPS had so many advantages over Win3.x and the other GUIs
available at the time.  Fully pre-emptive multi-tasking, excellent
support for running dos programs in windows.  It was like finally
being able to unlock your machine.  However, since it's been so long
since I have used it

> Like I wrote, most of the features you mentioned have nothing to do with the
> WPS but rather of HPFS, the filesystem OS/2 uses.

Which is funny since NTFS is based on HPFS.  In fact, a lot of NT v3.1
was beta tested on OS/2 since they had a lot of stuff in common, but
many things that were very different.  The kernels are very different
to say the least.  And, I was able to lock it up in less than 5
minutes when NT first came out and didn't even have everything I
usually had running in OS/2 running yet......  :-)
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