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From: pcbsd@netcom.com (PCBSD Development Manager)
Subject: Re: Porting NetBSD to OS/2 and Windows NT
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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 00:13:18 GMT
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Rob Shady (crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu) wrote:
: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:

: >Actually, hosted OS projects are quite common; several examples:

: I think your missing the point here...  Your taking a multi-user, multi-
: tasking full blown (bigger than life!) operating system, and porting it
: to a single user, slow as hell operating system.  It's not realistic...

OS/2 is not slow.  The Presentation Manager is.  There is a big difference,
like between the UNIX kernel and X.  The OS/2 is used for the PCBSD kernel,
and multiuser capabilities are added too.
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