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From: pcbsd@netcom.com (PCBSD Development Manager)
Subject: Re: Whats up with the OS/2 port of NetBSD?
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 08:05:15 GMT
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Todd Meade (a09392@giant.rsoft.bc.ca) wrote:
: 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.

IBM is redesigning the internals of OS/2 to provide something similar
to what Microsoft promoses for NT - subsystems.  Theoretically, the
new OS/2 will have an ability to plug-and-use subsystems such as
POSIX, DOS, etc.

I am not sure what IBM will have available as far as UNIX compatible
environment, but PCBSD will be migrated to whatever IBM comes up with
next.
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