Were you aware that IBM is supporting OS/2 again?... just curious...
On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 03:56 PM, Karel Jansens wrote:
>
> On Tue 12 Feb 2002 Michael J. Hu=DFmann wrote:
>
>>
>>> - all things Java related
>>
>> Nothing to do with Mac OS X, really. You will remember when Apple
>> killed
>> OpenDoc, justifying this decision by declaring they would use Java
>> instead? And how no-one was able to see the connection between OpenDoc
>> and Java, and how one could be a replacement for the other
>> (JavaBeans, I
>> know, but still ...)? Anyway, what really happened was that Java
>> support
>> under Mac OS came to a standstill. For years, Apple neglected Java
>>
>
> IIRC, IBM dropped OpenDoc b/c OS/2 got "phased out" (politespeak for
> "killed by Microsoft ") and nobody could come up with a reliable way to
> run an 00 application platform on Windows. It's interesting to hear
> Apple's excuse.
>
> OpenDoc really rocked on my Warp 4 workstation.
>
> Sometimes I have wet dreams about a Newton-like device, built on
> OpenDoc foundations.
> Karel Jansens
> kareljansens@ tiscalinet.be
>
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