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Richard Riehle wrote:
> Richard Bos wrote:
> regarding greater dependence on NT by the U.S. Navy,
> 
> > That is good news. For the rest of us, that is ;->.
> 
> It is my impression that some in the Navy are finally discovering
> the horrors of depending on Microsoft products.   Unfortunately,
> not enough, yet.
...
> ... Personally, I would like to see
> IBM resurrect OS/2 since it seems more secure than anything Microsoft
> has at present or projected for the future.

AFAIK, OS/2 was all/mostly written in assembly language. That does
not inspire much confidence, IMO.  I also remember those friendly
OS/2 errors "O/S Error # 301... Have a nice day.." (some
exageration included) ;-)
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