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I heard that IBM registered a trade mark "The Integration Platform (TM)", and it is a general concept and ideology under OS/2 design. | I heard that IBM registered a trade mark "The Integration Platform (TM)", and it is a general concept and ideology under OS/2 design. |
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It advertised as "DOS better than DOS" and "Windows better than Windows", and it's true. The continuation of this idea was the Workplace OS, which was never finished, because a voluntary desision of IBM management. It is failed also because no other companies were willing to port their OS'es to IBM's microkernel. But we care much only about OS/2 personality as a base and our OS. The other personalities could be reused as results or other projects, like L4linux or Reactos. | It advertised as "DOS better than DOS" and "Windows better than Windows", and it's true. The continuation of this idea was the Workplace OS, which was never finished, because a voluntary desision of IBM management. It is failed also because no other companies were willing to port their OS'es to IBM's microkernel. But we care much only about OS/2 personality as a base and our OS. The other personalities could be reused as results or other projects, like L4linux or ReactOS, and Opensource will help us with it. |
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==== The current OS/2 personality prototype ==== | ==== The current OS/2 personality prototype ==== |