Releasing OS/2 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

14 Oct 2005

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Subject: Re: Releasing OS/2
   From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
   Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:55:01 -0700
     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org

On 10/14/2005 at 9:28 PM Allison wrote:

 I have to ask, how does all of this fit with the
question?:   
You asked about Z80 MT outside of MP/M.  I pointed out that there's more
than one way to skin a cat.  In particular, MT does not have to be an
integral feature of the OS itself. 
I did not ask about Z80 MT as a direct part of the question on OS/2.  In 
fact any comments made were along the lines of scarcasm while we are talking 
about OS/2 lets let in the world of other OSs even the 8 bit ones that 
are not relevent to OS/2.  Maybe for once I was too subtle?

As to Z80 MTasking OSs there are several but I elected to layer a task 
executive on/under CP/M V2 as I had it and there was nothing to say 
it wouldn't work. Its big value was using all those idle cycles waiting
for keystrokes.  I did it back around '81-2. and it was an interesting
exercise in hardware and software.

The real question, the one I'd really like to know more about,
was and is:

I have OS/2warp3 how does it compare to Concurrent386 and win3.1 in 
the PC realm?  I have both OS/2W3 and CC386 but never installed them
for no real reason.  What have I missed?

Allison