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  2. From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  4. Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov5.135632.791@global.hacktic.nl>
  6. Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:56:32 GMT
  7. References: <1cilaoINNpjm@haydn.crhc.uiuc.edu> <Bwsy4E.DJL@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1992Oct29.230953.1633@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <oexJJyu00VouQImFso@andrew.cmu.edu>
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  11. nk24+@andrew.cmu.edu (Nicholas Kramer) writes:
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  13. >take a look at a NeXT. It doesn't look like what DOS users think of as
  14. >*nix, and yet, it is most definately Unix.
  15.  
  16. >another 20 years. But it will never be "the operating system of the
  17. >masses."
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  19. I just wonder, why UNIX can't be "the operating system of the masses". Doesn't
  20. your NeXT quote prove that it can be done?
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