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- From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
- Subject: Re: PC Unix/Xenix vendors
- Message-ID: <2B640EE0.675B@tct.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:01:36 GMT
- References: <C188DI.EHE@ddsw1.mcs.com> <2B6010B6.14DF3@tct.com> <ADAMS.93Jan23013219@PDV2.pdv2.fmr.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de> <C1DCED.D19@ddsw1.mcs.com>
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- According to karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger):
- >Certainly, [PC clones] have the installed base now. But these
- >"installed" systems do not play well together, they're unstable (ask
- >any DOS user) and to get away from that is just too damn expensive.
-
- It's DOS and Windows that are unstable, not the hardware architecture.
- Contrast UNIX on a PC clone: it keeps going, and going, and going...
-
- >As the world goes away from DOS to other choices the chip becomes less
- >important.
-
- "Goes away from DOS" ... to systems that support DOS applications,
- like OS/2 and Windows and modern UNIX VP/ix or DOS Merge or SoftPC.
- Those real people-use-'em DOS apps won't disappear for a decade or so.
- --
- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
- "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
- want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
- and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"
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