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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on May 16, 2010, 03:41:44 pm
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Link to full article (http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1508584,00.html)
A systems integrator close to the computing giant swears there's a move afoot inside IBM to reintroduce the operating system -- revered by some, reviled by many -- before it faded out more than 10 years ago. He has heard this from inside Big Blue itself.
According to the integrator, IBM's nascent plan is to repurpose OS/2 "services" atop a Linux core.
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Will it be OS/2 Transwarp?
Stephen
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Since the claim is that they are dressing up Linux as OS/2 it would be more of a "Sweet Transvestite".
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LOL, ahh ok, OS/2 KROMA. :D :D :D
Seriously, way back when I liked OS/2 warp.
Stephen
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/me slowly recovers from an uncontrollable laughing fit...
os/2... riiiiiight
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LOL, ahh ok, OS/2 KROMA. :D :D :D
Lets see. Who else do we know who has been known to wear attire more commonly associated with the opposite sex? Something about a skirt and a tractor springs to mind . . .
Seriously, way back when I liked OS/2 warp.
Stephen
I never tried it myself. It seemed at the time that IBM was tieing it too close to their own hardware. If they had worked to be more open they might have won.
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Hey watch it with the hula skirt, I have many more talents...
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No that can't be Kroma not pink enough.
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Hey watch it with the hula skirt, I have many more talents...
Stephan that hair tonic may be putting hair on your head but it puts too much pork everywhere else.