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- From: jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen)
- Subject: Re: A survey: Your dream operating system
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.204840.3967@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <18323@mindlink.bc.ca> <Bz2MFB.BuB@inews.Intel.COM> <1992Dec11.041606.23262@cs.brown.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:48:40 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- cs011177@cs.brown.edu (Kwun Han) writes:
-
- >In article <Bz2MFB.BuB@inews.Intel.COM>, dmarer@td2cad.intel.com (Dennis Marer) writes:
- >|> In article <18323@mindlink.bc.ca> Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer) writes:
- >|> >Dream operating system to totally replace MS-DOS? To be run on a 386+ PC?
-
- > There is currently an version of Unix called Linux available as
- > freeware from many ftp sites.
- > I installed it in my 486 last week, hey man, it flies.... . In text
- > operation, the screen doesn't scroll, it feels as if it pops up to you,
- > and mind you, that was in 43 x 132 as well.
- > In processing, well, my 486-33 have a small test on floating point
- > against two machines, a Sparc-1 and a Sparc-2. The program was compiled
- > with the same compiler (GCC) and the result? My 486 is nearly two times
- > faster than the Sparc-1, and just slower than a Sparc-2. The Linux
- > system comes with X-windows and many other applications. Sometimes it
- > makes you think that running a PC with DOS is a waste. And, with that
- > speed, who need a Sparc?
- > The only draw back with the Linux system is the choice of software,
- > there are currently very few available software for linux, but they are
- > coming.............
-
- When the DOS emulator is complete enough to allow me to play Ultima
- Underworld with it, give me a call. (Not a flame - Linux is really
- good, and hey, I was on a CS course this fall with Linus himself :) The
- point is, until we have the "commonly accepted" DOS environment programs
- (ie. WP, Word, Excel, AutoCAD, the *games*) running under *any* new OS,
- it won't be able to compete with DOS or OS/2. And I really think that
- Linux, for example, blows the doors out from any Microsoft/IBM scrap
- performance-wise.
- --
- Juha Liukkonen, aka jliukkon@cc.helsinki.fi
- University of Helsinki, Dept. of Lost Souls
- "Trust me, I know what I'm doing." - Sledge Hammer
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