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Markus E Leypold wrote:
> 
> Jan Vanden Bossche <jan80@MailAndNews.com> writes:
> 
<snip>
> > But
> > that's almost on a par with a minimal OS/2 install.
> 
> Can you compare that? Having Minix means having a *full* Unix
> (including awf as nroff substitute). Having a minimal OS/2 install
> means having a closed source proprietary OS with at most an text
> editor.
> 
> Regards -- Markus

Yeah, OS/2 is a closed source proprietary OS. However, I believe that
you can *still* get fixpacks for Warp versions 3 and 4 from IBM's
website. Plus there's a lot of EWS (employee-written software) available
for free. Large corporations aren't *always* evil, sometimes they are
just short-sighted and rather stupid.

Besides, I like text editors.

-- Marten Kemp
