On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 19:36 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Like Linux, OS/2 rarely crashed.
OS/2 was the best Protected386, DOS-compatible operating system ever. Linux followed the tradition, because Linux opened up the Intel 80386 Programmer's Guide and wrote it to spec -- including requiring a MMU. This, and the monolithic approach, got him criticized by Andrew S. Tannebaum -- the guy who literally wrote the book on OS and system design for CS and ECE majors! Luckily for Linus, not only did MMUs become commonplace, but with today's multi-CPUs, one entry per CPU gives monolithic kernels better response time while maintaining it's throughput superiority. Let alone monolithic kernels are much easier to develop for than microkernels, which kill throughput in many cases (short of VxWorks and a few, select others). I moved from OS/2 to NT. And Gates _killed_ NT in 1994, when he gave the thumbs up to "Chicago." Ever since then, NT has been "Chicago's" bitch. In the age of the Internet, that's been the crux. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, technical annoyance mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ----------------------------------------------------------- Americans don't get upset because citizens in some foreign nations can burn the American flag -- Americans get upset because citizens in those same nations can't burn their own