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- From: skwong@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant))
- Subject: Re: <None> (Should be Open Systems, bloody NEWS system...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.065237.5008@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk>
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- Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:52:37 GMT
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- dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox) writes:
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- >>|>> So far, the most "open" system I can think of is a 386 running DOS:
- >>|>> - systems available from all sorts of people
- >>|>> - CPU's available from (at least) AMD, Intel, IBM, and Cyrix
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- >I don't agree. For a system to be open requires it not to be
- >proprietary. Of course, 386s running DOS are a lot more 'open' than
- >Macintoshes, for example. But Unix (or at least _some_ unixes) foster
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- Have you program Mac before? I think it is more open than MS-DOS.
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