On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:18:08 +1000, Helen Borrie wrote:

>At 01:29 PM 27-04-00 -0600, you wrote:
>> TIM
>>[snip]
>>developement) and judging by the amount of DLL-HELL I go through on a
>>regular basis I would say that nobody has gotten the "shared library" thing
>>right.
>>HELEN
>OS/2 did get it right first time. The part that M$ got right was the
>marketing strategy. If IBM had innovated back in '89 instead of forcing
>its brilliant PC operating system onto its 110% proprietary hardware
>architecture, just think what life might have been like today...

For example: a true OO GUI absolutely extendable (Workplace Shell),
object oriented DLLs, scalability from user to server, much less crashes,
a very smart memory/swapfile manager...
<sigh>