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- From: drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.101533.19178@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- References: <1382@netxcom.netx.com> <1992Nov06.071731.947@Celestial.COM>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 10:15:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov06.071731.947@Celestial.COM> 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!
- >
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- Even better : TRSDOS could run off of one 80K (As in single sided,
- single density 5.25") floppy.
-
- --
- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
- IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but
- marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments.
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
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