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From: kenh@wrl.epi.com (Ken Hornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Whats up with the OS/2 port of NetBSD?
Date: 30 Dec 1993 09:28:56 -0500
Organization: Entropic Research Laboratory, Washington DC
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In article <2fteq3$6vt@deep.rsoft.bc.ca>,
Todd Meade <a09392@giant.rsoft.bc.ca> wrote:
>
>Actually it dosen't seem all that wierd to me, considering OS/2 already
>runs (emulates ?) MS-DOS and MS-Windows...
>
>Whats so strange about emulating BSD as well :-)
>
>And its my understanding that this is IBM's long term vision:
>have an OS that runs many other OS's as sub-systems, that is on 
>a single IBM workstation, the dream is to run AIX/OSF, OS/2, Apple
>System 7, DOS, MS-WINDOWS, etc. applications concurrently.

You would think that after trying this scheme on their VM mainframes, they
would have learned how successful this is ...

--Ken