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USB / Re: OS/2 & eCS USB HID driver incomplete
« on: 2010.11.25, 11:53:23 »...Yes, I know where you are coming from, but as I said, there are a LOT of things that need to be fixed before anybody even thinks about making a joystick work. If the basic OS won't work, games quickly become a non issue.
I think you fail to realize how people who don't already use OS/2 view it. Sure, OS/2 need more important things. But it also needs these things as well. Unless you want to continue to relegate OS/2 to the corporate world & neglect the home user, youve gotta realize that modern users aren't going to switch to OS/2 based on Java or printing, they can do that already with Windows, Linux, BSD, MacOS X, Solaris & almost every other OS. You're really going to have something a lot more compelling. It's the same basic problem as why Plan9 was never able to replace Unix; Unix was good enough, there wasn't a compelling reason to unseat it.
Well, that is quite a statement. Without JAVA, half the world can't log into their bank accounts. While I sort of agree with you about printing (back in the early 1980's some bigwig in IBM told us that printers would be obsolete by 1990 - but then look what they did with OS/2), I don't think you will convince most users that printing isn't more important than having support for a joystick.
I don't think you'll convince users to switch to OS/2 based on printers.
You have some interesting comments on kernels. If the kernel does get developed (and I think that is a big IF), the rest could follow. However, it seems that the project has been under way for some time, and there isn't a lot to show for it, yet. It all comes down the the problem where there are not enough programers, and those programers who are working on it are still subject to 24 hours days (plus a lot of them need to have a job to support their families). The rest of the "dream on" stuff would have to come after the kernel is developed, which will add another, significant, amount of time to get to the end result. Meanwhile, Joystick support is probably the last thing on most people's minds, but don't let that discourage you, if you want to do it. I would rather that I could use JAVA with OpenOffice, or Firefox.
Perhaps you would, but you might want to remember that it was DirectX that helped Win95 unseat DOS.