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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com!pcbsd From: pcbsd@netcom.com (PCBSD Development Manager) Subject: Re: Porting NetBSD to OS/2 and Windows NT Message-ID: <pcbsdCGK5y7.Eyp@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <crt.753372922@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 00:13:18 GMT Lines: 17 Rob Shady (crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu) wrote: : terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: : >Actually, hosted OS projects are quite common; several examples: : I think your missing the point here... Your taking a multi-user, multi- : tasking full blown (bigger than life!) operating system, and porting it : to a single user, slow as hell operating system. It's not realistic... OS/2 is not slow. The Presentation Manager is. There is a big difference, like between the UNIX kernel and X. The OS/2 is used for the PCBSD kernel, and multiuser capabilities are added too. -- --------------------------------- ------------------------------ -- PCBSD Development Manager -- -- Service Commitment Support -- --------------------------------- ------------------------------