Re: Limbo-list digest, Vol 1 #468 - 4 msgs

John,

I wasn't making any arguments - I was just asking questions :-]

I guess everyone is so busy making their point that sometimes we just
need to step back and ask what are the questions and leave someone else
to answer them.

Yours is one of those answers ;-]


Rodd

On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 11:42, John wrote:
> On Friday 20 September 2002 08:33, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > If Linux is just like Windows, where's the choice?
> 
> There is a considerable difference between "just like Windows" and being 
> written to common UI standards. On this point, your argument fails.
> 
> As I've already said, IBM adopted CUA as its standard across AIX, OS/2, MVS 
> TSO/E and everything else.
> 
> Since at that time IBM and MS were in partnership WRT OS/2 and Windows I 
> expect Microsoft's standards are quite similar. Certainly, they seem so from 
> my observations, but nobody could reasonably argue that OS/2 is epecially 
> similar to versions of Windows apart from their common heritage in DOS.
> 
> OS/2 was build on SOM and DSOM and incorporate OpenDOC (technology in joint 
> development with Apple). None of those appeared in Windows.
> 
> 
> 
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> Cheers
> John.
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