home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!access.usask.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!rahardj
- From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
- Subject: Re: THE MOST TASTELESS OS (MSDOS)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.121841.14606@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Keywords: Unknown
- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- References: <1992Aug21.231603.3615@darwin.ntu.edu.au> <1992Aug21.191739.9028@sequent.com> <1992Aug22.055509.3859@dmp.csiro.au>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 12:18:41 GMT
- Lines: 29
-
- In <1992Aug22.055509.3859@dmp.csiro.au> lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:
-
- >georged@sequent.com (George Dolbier) writes:
- >>>CONCLUSION:
- >>> Microsoft!!....invent UNIX and make it free. The UNIX system is perfect,
- >>>nothing bets UNIX. UNIX rules the world and UNIX was implemented properly!.
- >>>If you can't do that, give us the source code for messy. At least that way,
- >>>32 bits hackers can built it 32 bits.
- >>I guess you have not really looked at the guts of unix have you....
- >>You should not open yourself to snipers by comparing DOS to UNIX. They are
- >>just not compareable.
-
- >Right on Bro!!!
- >Would anyone out there in net-land flame me for suggesting that the
- >above above BOZO has never had to install or maintain a UNIX system.
- >Unix may be good if you have someone else to keep
- >it going for you (i.e. the systems manager)
- >but try installing it!!! At least DOS is relatively simple but -
-
- FYI, Linux (a free unix clone for 386 and above) is easy to install.
- Just copy (use rawrite.exe to be exact) the boot disk and root disk,
- insert the boot disk and ctrl-alt-del ... that's it.
- Follow up to comp.os.linux
-
-
- -- budi
- --
- Budi Rahardjo <rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Unix Support - Computer Services - University of Manitoba
-