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| I heard that IBM registered a trade mark "The Integration Platform (TM)", and it is a general concept and ideology under OS/2 design. | I heard that IBM registered a trade mark "The Integration Platform (TM)", and it is a general concept and ideology under OS/2 design. |
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| It advertised as "DOS better than DOS" and "Windows better than Windows", and it's true. The continuation of this idea was the Workplace OS, which was never finished, because a voluntary desision of IBM management. It is failed also because no other companies were willing to port their OS'es to IBM's microkernel. But we care much only about OS/2 personality as a base and our OS. The other personalities could be reused as results or other projects, like L4linux or Reactos. | It advertised as "DOS better than DOS" and "Windows better than Windows", and it's true. The continuation of this idea was the Workplace OS, which was never finished, because a voluntary desision of IBM management. It is failed also because no other companies were willing to port their OS'es to IBM's microkernel. But we care much only about OS/2 personality as a base and our OS. The other personalities could be reused as results or other projects, like L4linux or ReactOS, and Opensource will help us with it. |
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| ==== The current OS/2 personality prototype ==== | ==== The current OS/2 personality prototype ==== |
| The osFree PM is an osFree version of FreePM, which was began by Evgeny Kotsuba, and then abandoned. After that, we did some changes to it, and called it "osFree PM", to avoid name collision in case Evgeny will continue his initial version. | The osFree PM is an osFree version of FreePM, which was began by Evgeny Kotsuba, and then abandoned. After that, we did some changes to it, and called it "osFree PM", to avoid name collision in case Evgeny will continue his initial version. |
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| * [[http://wiki.laser.ru/os8/index.php/FreePM|Docs about FreePM, by Evgeny]], now inaccessible | * [[http://web.archive.org/web/20071214042403/http://wiki.laser.ru/os8/index.php/FreePM|Docs about FreePM, by Evgeny]], WebArchive version |
| * [[http://frepm.sourceforge.net|FreePM on SourceForge]] Forum and code repository | * [[http://frepm.sourceforge.net|FreePM on SourceForge]] Forum and code repository |
| * [[en:docs:pm:index|Documentation]] on PM implementation based on FreePM | * [[en:docs:os2:pm:index|Documentation]] on PM implementation based on FreePM |
| * [[en:docs:freepm:index|Some parts]] of FreePM docs written by Evgeny. | * [[en:docs:os2:freepm:index|Some parts]] of FreePM docs written by Evgeny. |
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| ~~DISCUSSION~~ | ~~DISCUSSION~~ |
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