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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Path: sparky!uunet!coplex!trebor!root
- From: root@trebor.uucp (Bob Stockler)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Organization: Bob Stockler
- Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 21:59:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov06.215919.5661@trebor.uucp>
- References: <1382@netxcom.netx.com> <1992Nov06.071731.947@Celestial.COM>
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- bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
-
- >In <1382@netxcom.netx.com> jwc@netx.com (Jeffrey W. Comer) writes:
-
- >:And hey! Don't knock DOS! It may be a wimpy little thing in the corner, but
- >:it got the micro revolution started, and I wager alot of us are employed
- >:today thanks to this boon. DOS has its problems too, and if *I* had any say
- >:in its design, it would look a lot better, but remember DOS was originally
- >:designed to fit onto and operate from a SINGLE 360K floppy! Which versions
- >:of UNIX can make that claim?
-
- >But then so could TRS-DOS, and it had on-line help!
-
- In an article by Frank Dudra IV (one of the team responsible for the port
- of MicroSoft Xenix via SCO to the Tandy Systems) somewhere, sometime, (I
- think) I read that Tandy had a floppy-disk-only version (unpublished, not
- marketed) that would run some of their applications.
-
- I also recall that Bob Snapp put together a floppy-disk-only version of the
- Tandy Xenix op/sys + Scripsit for his daughter to use for word processing
- at school. Worked very nicely.
-
- Neither did it from a single floppy, but were never-the-less pretty compact
- versions of *NIX that could accomplish useful work (and didn't have their
- slashes backwards).
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-