On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Philipp Thomas
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...... :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org