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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: HOW WILL DOS BE HANDLED UNDER SVR4.2 ??
- Keywords: DOS VP/ix?? merge??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.155700.5343@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 15:57:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep9.181422.21994@SSD.intel.com>, richardg@ssd.intel.com (Richard Griffiths) writes:
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- | |> Dell ships DOS Merge in their base product
- | |>
- | |> ESIX doesn't come with DOS Merge --
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- | THANK GOD! I prefer to have a choice.
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- Getting one free doesn't preclude using the other... we have SCO
- systems with both installed. There are reasons for each, and as long as
- they avoid copying each other's strong points they can both make a
- living offering 90% of a solution.
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- While you're making choices, 80 column lines would be a good one...
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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