On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 06:43:32PM -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >But the Workplace Shell was an interesting hack, > > Yes! I'd love to see an equivalent in Linux.
My recollection and understanding is (was?) that when most people ask for IBM to open-source OS/2, it's the WPS that they want in order to port just that to Linux. If WPS gets ported to Linux, why would anybody care that OS/2 is dead? [1] So a good question would be "does the WPS by itself have IP that IBM would not be able to open-source?" [1] I discovered that OS/2 was dead when one of my SCSI HDs failed and a friend suggested "Forget SCSI, just get a big IDE disk to replace all your SCSI disks." Turns out that OS/2 can't be installed on IDE disks > 4 GB. And don't bother to tell me about alternate drivers and hacks and whatever. I wasted days on them. They don't work. I bought a big SCSI disk for a ridiculous amount of money and immediately committed myself to abandoning my once-beloved OS/2 system. I've powered it up for a total of maybe 2 hours in the last 3 years. Footnote to the footnote. I just read a lot of the stuff on ecomstation.com . It's pretty funny... the whole thing is an argument for why ECS is NOT a viable option in today's world. And BTW, after using NT4 and XP for years, I still miss OS/2 and hate Winblows. /Leonard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
