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- From: besler@geop.ubc.ca (Steve Besler)
- Subject: Re: OS compare (Unix/clone)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.165615.7660@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- Organization: Geophysics & Astronomy, U.B.C. Vancouver, Canada
- References: <920727594@tiny.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:56:15 GMT
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- In article 920727594@tiny.com, sjsobol@tiny.com (Steven J. Sobol) writes:
- >besler@geop.ubc.ca writes: (re. multi-processing OS's on XT's)
- >
- >>Well, it's nice to see that you stand by your statement, but you're WRONG.
- >>Although it is not unix, there is an OS for XT's and above called PC/GEOS
- >>which has virtual memory and flat memory addressing. All this in a 70k kernel.
- >>Throw in the Motif GUI that gets linked to it at boot-up time, and the fact
- >>that it has pre-emptive multitasking and you get a system that kicks MicroSloth
- >>Windoze in the head!
- >
- >Great. Now where's the software for it?? :)
- >Besides AOL's software and the integrated software that the same company
- >sells (can't remember the name) ... there is none!!
- >
- >--
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-
- Well, smarty-pants, the GeoWorks decided to wait for version 2.0 to
- release a full-featured Software Development Kit. It will be out in 6 months
- or so. But sorry, you are WRONG when you say that "... there is none" There
- are at least two other companies who are marketing programs for PC/GEOS.
- The lack of many third party apps is admittedly a problem, but that's not the
- point. The original point of my post was to say that a multitasking PC environment
- was entirely possible on an XT, and gave GEOS as an example. Several unices that
- worked on XTs were also posted by others. So there!
-
- Steven Besler
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