In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/21/2005
at 11:31 AM, Leonard Woren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>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]
Applications that aren't available for Linux, e.g., Family Tree/2,
InCharge, MR/2 ICE. OpenDoc.
>So a good question would be "does the WPS by itself have IP that IBM
>would not be able to open-source?"
Well, the key pieces are HPFS, PM, SOM and WPS itself. I understand
that some of the Linux file systems support extended attributes. I
believe that PM is encumbered. AFAIK, SOM and WPS are strictly IBM.
>[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.
Yes it can[1], and I've done it. You need a more current release.
Although on my primary machine I use SCSI, by choice.
[1] Although I believe that the new limit is still lower than the
limit for SCSI.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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