Rob,

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:43:31 +0100, Rob Hamerling wrote:

> 
> Hi Xiaofan,
> 
> Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> > http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3725526
> 
> Although I signed the petition getting OS/2 open sourced, it was to my 
> opinion not very realistic.

Me too, on both counts.

> But the petition helped to get the attention 
> of people thinking it is dead for more than 10 years. It depends how you 
> define 'dead' for a product. I'm still using it as my primary OS for 
> modern hardware (dual processor, dual screen) and modern applications 
> (Firefox, etc).

Yup, me too!  It does annoy me when people say it died 10 years ago.  There was still development going on by IBM three years ago, and by various others under 
Serenity Systems to this day.  Version 2.0 of eComStation should be out "Real Soon Now"!  :-)

> And (to get it a little on topic here) with the Watcom Open C/C++ 
> compiler I can build under OS/2 also the Linux and W32 versions of my 
> originally OS/2 applications like XWisp2 for Wisp628/648. XWisp2 
> compiles also under GCC, but then I would have to install and run three 
> versions of GCC on three platforms.... 

As a matter of interest, do you use exactly the same source code for the three operating systems, or does it have to be tweaked for each?

> Even with Virtual PC (also a so 
> called 'dead' OS/2 product) this is not comfortable, but it allows me to 
> test the other XWisp2 versions without rebooting.

I always meant to get Virtual PC running, but never got round to it.  I understand it runs rather well, as long as you give it plenty of memory.  Which these days is 
about an eighth of that required for Vista...
 
> > I read some good things about OS/2 in PIClist.
> 
> I do my best ;-) but it's the voice of one crying in the wilderness.

Two!  :-)))

Personally I tend not to bang on about it, because it's rather Off Topic for the PIClist and I don't want to bore people (although I may have failed in the latter 
anyway! :-)

I wonder if you and I are unique (or whatever is the word meaning two only) in being fans of both PIC and OS/2?

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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