Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: crispin@csd.uwo.ca (Crispin Cowan)
Subject: Re: PVM on Windows PCs?
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Date: 31 Aug 1994 22:39:12 GMT
Message-ID: <3430qg$pa2@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>

In article <morphy.141.2E63ADAB@alumni.caltech.edu>,
Jones M. Murphy, Jr. <morphy@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>The reason so many people are running Windows is that they can get their jobs 
>done with the apps available for Windows, quickly and easily. Many people find 
>this difficult to understand, hence the naive suggestions of "run Linux", 
>etc. Linux is fine, but it doesn't run many of the most popular business apps. 

How about running OS/2, which (allegedly) *does* have a PVM port, and
is also quite willing to run those Windows apps?

Crispin
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