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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!emory!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!news From: wagner@main.mndly.umn.edu (Rick Wagner) Subject: Re: Porting NetBSD to OS/2 and Windows NT Message-ID: <CGLuq0.4x1@news2.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: bus45.mndly.umn.edu Reply-To: wagner@main.mndly.umn.edu (Rick Wagner) Organization: The Minnesota Daily X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.00 References: <pcbsdCGE4oI.5zw@netcom.com> <2c22ac$fob@u.cc.utah.edu> <crt.753372922@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <2c9aka$4fp@u.cc.utah.edu> <crt.753458826@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 22:01:28 GMT Lines: 27 In <crt.753458826@tiamat.umd.umich.edu>, crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Rob Shady) writes: >terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >>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. Being a fully pre-emptive multi-tasking OS, I'm not sure what in the hell you mean by pseudo-multi-tasking. You somehow confusing windows with OS/2? >>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. Try typing the command 'REMOVE DOS' at the Netware file console. This frees up all the memory that DOS was occupying. The ONLY reason that DOS is left around in memory normally is so you can transfer files directly to the HD. Netware does NOT run on top of DOS like Windows. I think you're ignorance is showing here. Have you ever seen either of Netware or OS/2? It sure as hell doesn't sound like it. Rick W.