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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!hacktic!utopia!global!peter
- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re^2: THE MOST TASTELESS OS (MSDOS)
- Keywords: Unknown
- Message-ID: <166@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 23:57:33 GMT
- References: <1992Aug21.231603.3615@darwin.ntu.edu.au> <1992Aug22.094513.26078@actrix.gen.nz>
- Organization: Global Village 1
- Lines: 22
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- Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug21.231603.3615@darwin.ntu.edu.au> nunn@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (JsNO BAR---NUNN) 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.
-
- >IBM has already done it. It's called OS/2 2.0. *NIX are good, but OS/2 gives
- >much of the same power and functionality in user-friendly form that is -
- >comparatively and in real terms - easy to use.
-
- Yeah, but it's not an open system. What if IBM in it's eternal wisdom decides
- that OS/2 v3.0 should only run on MCA machines? (The same goes for Windows/NT).
- OS/2 applications run on nothing else but OS/2 and that means that once you
- have invested in OS/2 software, you're stuck with OS/2.
-
- Greetings,
- Peter Busser
-