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- From: Marc Forrester <mef4@aber.ac.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 02:51:35 GMT
- Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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- nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu (Nathanael J Henderson) wrote:
- >: PROS: The best damn OS every created (3.1). The ONLY machine that
- >: still truly multitasks for under $10K.
- >: It is the most versatile machine
- >
- > Uh....aren't you forgetting Unix?
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- He perhaps exaggerates, but a real UNIX box is still a -$- piece of kit.
- Speaking of which, when will we get piping and a real C.L.I?
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- > OS/2? Even Winblows 95 to some degree?
-
- No, -truly- multitasks. In a native-to-machine sort of way.
- Including all device activity and such. Without crashing.
-
- >Heck, you can set up a reasonable Linux box
- >for a couple hundred dollars.
-
- Well, yes. Fine if Doom 1 and XTrek will set you up for life. :)
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