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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!epiwrl.entropic.com!usenet 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 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <2fuoj8$acg@sparc10.entropic.com> References: <CIsAFt.Hq0@news2.cis.umn.edu> <CIt1Dy.I0G@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <crt.757187888@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <2fteq3$6vt@deep.rsoft.bc.ca> Reply-To: kenh@wrl.epi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sparc10.entropic.com 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