Unix vs. OS/2 (was RE: Pournelle on Unix)

[Tim Smith, Knowledgian]

< There are a lot of things that OS2 claims to be able to uniquely do, but here
< are a couple of things that it CAN'T do (as far as I can tell) that it seems
< UNIX CAN.
< 1) Run on a PS2/30
< 2) Run on a 386 machine IN 386 MODE.
< 3) work NOW on a '286 machine. (rather than just the command interpreter)

Yeah, well here are some things that The Exec ( that was Mattel's OS in
the Intellivision ) could do nearly a decade ago that Unix still can't do:

1) Run on a GI 1600
2) Work with only a few hundred bytes of RAM ( and no disk )
3) Asynchronous IO at the application level
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