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Date:	Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:07:28 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: Connectix announcement

In <0HAZ00HRBWXBEF@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net>, on 02/27/03
at 05:45 PM, "Lynn H. Maxson" said:

>My information is at best x-hand based on
>discussions appearing on the few mailing lists to which I
>subscribe.

I try, not always successfully, to avoid taking rumours and theories as
facts.

>That none of these
>provide any ability to run the M$ office suite on OS/2 says just how
>long we have come and how far we have to go.

I don't know what you are talking about. I have seen MS Office running
under VPC on an OS/2 box. If you are saying you would prefer it to run
under Odin, well all it takes is someone to invest the time writing the
missing code and fix the broken parts. That's what CodeWeavers did for MS
Office under Linux.

The issue is
>productivity. The problem is our tool set. That sets the limits on our
>productivity.

Hardly. It's the lack of folks sitting at a desk writing code. OS/2 got
to where it is because IBM paid lots of folks to write code in assembler
and C using Microsoft development tools. The design was the easy part.
Multithreading OS's were hardly an innovation when OS/2 was implemented.

Steven

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