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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!destroyer!news.itd.umich.edu!tiamat.umd.umich.edu!crt From: crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Rob Shady) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Porting NetBSD to OS/2 and Windows NT Date: 16 Nov 1993 09:09:20 -0500 Organization: Univerisity of Michigan - Dearborn Lines: 33 Message-ID: <crt.753458826@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> References: <pcbsdCGE4oI.5zw@netcom.com> <2c22ac$fob@u.cc.utah.edu> <crt.753372922@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <2c9aka$4fp@u.cc.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cw-u01.umd.umich.edu terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >Some corrections to your corrections of my hosted OS list: 8-). >MACH *IS* basically a *NIX kernel. > Nope; MACH is MACH -- a UNIX kernel supplies swapper and file > system services. True, but MACH was designed with a UNIX kernel (or similar) in mind. >OS/2 is single user... > Don't confuse "single user" with "single tasking". I'm not confusing the two at all, but there is a big difference between being pseudo-multi-tasking, and being multi-user. >NetWare on XXX > NetWare is an OS, not an application; don't confuse "non-preemptive > multitasking" with "not multitasking". How is Netware an operating system? I think this is arguable. It's close enough I suppose, except you don't 'boot' netware, it relies on the underlying operating system to support it. >Mac on DOS > Again, don't confuse "single user" with "single tasking". Same as above.. > Terry Lambert > terry@cs.weber.edu >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers.