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by giamma 4y ago
I just found out that netlabs.org, an historical provider of free OS/2 software and ports, is still up and running http://blog.netlabs.org/ https://github.com/bitwiseworks/qtwebengine-chromium-os2
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by giamma 4y ago
Also, DDE probably earlier than OLE?
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by giamma 4y ago
I am sorry I can't help you here. The only UI problems I implemented were rather simple, built with IBM VisualAge which had a nice drag&drop visual editor for the screens and dialogs. http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n11&#
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by giamma 4y ago
> One of the other concurrent goals at the time was to remove Microsoft code from OS/2. Developers on the team were classified into those who had seen Microsoft code and those who had not. Even seeing the MS code was immediate disqu
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by giamma 4y ago
I believe there are still some very specific scenarios in which is used, probably by Banks and in the domain of control theory. There were news that in early 2000 it was still running the whole Hong Kong airport. In Italy where I live, up t
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by giamma 4y ago
OS/2 was running it's own native programs, usually developed in C/C++ and compiled against it's O.S. API, which were very nicely designed for the time, much cleaner and better organized than most of the competition. Thes
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by giamma 4y ago
Yes it is
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by giamma 4y ago
There have been many requests to make it opensource, but apparently this was not possible because some part of the code are owned by both IBM and Microsoft who collaborated on OS/2 at the beginning before Microsoft decided to build its
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Apache Shenyu Project Graduates(github.com)
39 points by giamma 4y ago|22 comments
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by giamma 4y ago
Apache Shenyu API gateway graduates from incubation to top level project
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by giamma 4y ago
This article is biased: "That innovation was the essential ingredient behind decentralized finance (DeFi) and NFTs" as if defi was already globally in use! And later: “Rightly or wrongly, she'd absorbed a very toxic environme
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by giamma 4y ago
I disagree, statistics demonstrated that the death number largely decreased among vaccinated. As such to me "forcing" vaccination is legit if it saves more people than it harms, it's for the greater good. Personally I don&#x
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by giamma 4y ago
"Based on this I felt like some of the big winners in 2050 will be Rust, Clojure and Go. They mostly nail these criteria and are well-designed for not relying on containers or other similar technology for basic testing and feature impl
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by giamma 5y ago
I believe it largely depends on the business domain. I worked for many years in fintech, for banks and insurances. Consider the following examples. Insurance: Given 10 input fields about a potential customer, produce a quotation and an illu