enorbet wrote:

>Hello
>  After reading the linked page, and considering this has been a change 
>whose punch has been telegraphed for quite some time, while it is bound 
>to create more powerful machines thay are more importantly going to be 
>simpler.  I, for one, will only be too glad to see an end to diverse 
>peripheral busses, having wasted fair sums of money on ISA, MCA, EISA, 
>VLB, and even AGP ( which took only roughly 3 years to "update" to a 
>voltage incompatible version ) not to mention absorbing the cost to 
>manufacturers for gaving to code for this potpourri.  Settling in to a 
>single basic mode, serial, for everything simply cannot be so daunting a 
>task that OS/2 will die over it.  Between, IBM ( if they choose to keep 
>their commitments ) ECS ( especially ECS, who must ante or fold, I'd 
>wager ) and the Open Source community it seems to me an opportunity to 
>pare down and omit a lot of old support requirements, with just a few 
>new ones, vastly more simple, to support. For me, the big question will 
>be can I continue to use OS/2 or must I switch to ECS ( or the other one 
>we almost never hear about, thus my lapse in memory ).  In any case, I'm 
>betting at least one of them will be running on the new generation desktops.
>

Hi Jimmy,

Fully in agreement with you on this! I think it will be a great 
opportunity as long as it's done right.

How many racecars are using drum brakes these days?

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