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Dan Bale wrote:
Anyway, if that were the case, it would seem to make sense to drop OS/2.
New apps developed for OS/2 vs. Linux = no brainer.
As long as the apps support decent, fundamental features, as OpenOffice
has been closing in on, I less concerned by large numbers of apps.
Now, if a couple OS/2 features could be implemented in Linux, I'd be
perfectly happy with it.
My #1 feature missed from OS/2 is the way 'program objects' on the
desktop were implemented. Similar to creating a command object to prompt
for program parms in OS/400. iSeries Access has programs such as
lstsplf.exe that you can create shortcuts for on the Windows desktop and
you can modify the shortcut properties to make it point to a specific
system. But if you have two or more AS/400s, you have to create two or
more shortcuts. An OS/2 program object could be configured to prompt you
for "System?" and multiple prompts for multiple parms.
Another feature that Windows apparently finally caught up with...
shortcuts that don't get invalidated because the target object was moved
to a different directory. OS/2 handled that correctly, linking the
shortcut (shadow?) to the object identifier rather than a path. Not sure
how Windows does it now.
The good old days... sigh.
Tom Liotta
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