I have an Essential Phone
I have an Essential PH1 - it is an amazing phone, I bought the 360 Camera for $62. In the 3 years I have owned it - no crashes, reliable, elegant and novel.
The add on bus is unique.
Posts by Fred Down
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After just one phone, Essential Products ascends to the great venture capitalist in the sky
It's 30 years ago: IBM's final battle with reality
Thursday 6th April 2017 11:53 GMT
Re: Interesting times
I worked on OS/2 at IBM Hursley, and at least in the versions I worked on OS/2 hand a single message queue to Presentation Manager. I did a talk on comparisons between Presentation Manager and X Windows and this was discussed,
OS/2 had for the time excellent multi-threading, the theory was that any program would grab a message from PM's queue, spin off a thread to handle it and then release the message queue, easier said than done.
My views on why OS/2 died :-
1 very poor developer support the development kit was expensive whist Microsoft was practically giving theirs away.
2 Poor peripheral support, for the longest time it did not support Sound Blaster the de-facto sound device at the time.
3 Required much greater hardware than was common at the time. The minimum stated hardware requirement was way to small to allow it to run properly.
I came from running Xenix on 286 hardware which managed pre-emptive multi tasking properly and had for years before OS/2.
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