Im Am curious Why use OS/2??? I used it once around the time win95 came out and never found it to be useful at all. Im sure there are many reasons and Im about to open the big can of worms Os/2 better that windows bettter than unix... No no MAC's are better... No no what about Dos / BeOS etc etc etc, but hell, please all you lot enlighten me. Yours about to regret ever asking the question Matt

Just to clarify, Fact please not opinions. 1. What does it do that other OS's dont? 2. What does it do better/faster thatn other OS's? 3. Why cost so much? 4. Why do people feel the need to use it? That sort of stuff.

.... do you call that 'mysitc' Winxxx a helpfull OS? - How can someone understand that much OS-Versions to fix bugs, bugs, bugs, ...... - how to protect against virus and that kind of stuff, how is it possible to remember Win xxx that I'll decide what software should establish on the PC - without questions??? - Do you call MS TCP/IP a open TCP/IP? Questions, questions ,,,,,

It has preemptive mutli-tasking, not time slicing... Most of the apps are multi-threaded. Example, try to do a search and attachment in Outlook (any ver) and then try to look in your sent folder. You can't. I can using PMMail/2 for OS/2. I can't with PMMail for Windows (yes I do use both versions). OS/2 is also OO native. MS finally came out with it with XP but still not fully mutli-threaded. It is much faster than Windows. I can grab 500 mb thru the network and place a "shadow" to my CD burning software and burn via the network with less than 25% CPU and still surf the web, print, install software. I was able to do that with OS/2 v2.0... PPl with Win3.x were always crsahing. OS/2 has HPFS, never fragments and is always working. NTFS, you still get fragmentation. OS/2 also has JFS (journal File System). Similar to an AS/400 i-series mid-range server. OS/2 also allows you to use mutliple versions of runtime depending on their location to the EXE, ala XP Pro with the .NET Framework. IBM has never discounted the cost of OS/2, that is why it costs so much. Actually, it costs the same price as XP Professional. Also, OS/2 v4 has been out since '95... where as XP Pro has just came out recently that matches (almost) all the items OS/2 can do. As with anything new, there is a learning curve. The successor to OS/2 is eCommStation.

Thanks, sound interesting. I might give it a wiz.

If you are curious about the FS there is a great FS shootout at: http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=33&id=1017845140 Above article will give you a bit more regarding performance and as well why one should use JFS (for once no more chkdisk...)