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From: jlg@odicon.UUCP (John L. Grzesiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: What does one get into when buying a Unix PC?
Summary: Hmmm.
Keywords: 7300 purchase?
Message-ID: <17@odicon.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jul 89 19:46:16 GMT
References: <2677@cveg.uucp> <614@becker.UUCP>
Organization: Omega Dynamics ,Wallingford Ct . ODICON
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In article <614@becker.UUCP>, bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes:
> In article <2677@cveg.uucp> f0057@uafhp.uucp (James E. Ward) writes:
> 
> |I have been a user on a Unix system for several years, and I once had an
> |IBM PC/AT with a Xenix partition.  I set it up and administered it, allowed
> |buds to dial-up and login.  Have I much more or less to accomplish with this
> |machine?
> 
> 	window-based utilities which make maintenance
> 	easier (in most cases), and the O/S is certainly
> 	better than Xenix. It is real, full-featured
        ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ !!!
> 	Unix with some extensions peculiar to the machine
> 	like the windows and support for the built-in modem
> 	and phone dialer.
> 

	Yes, It is a real (Albeit CONVERGENT enhanced) UNIX , but a value
	judgement should not be attached here. This form of prejudice had
	me disliking Xenix for many years (And I had never even used it!)
	Xenix itself is not bad, and has developed over the years to be 
	a real good operating system. To argue the relative merits of one
	system over another we must have many questions answered, and even
	then, we are prone to prejudice and emotionalism, since most of us
	don't like to remember what is different between the two. (At least
	I don't) If we keep to facts, we allow others to make their own value
	judgements and thus allow them a chance to be truly satisfied with
	their own choices.

			Hopefully , not taken as preachy,
			but, If so, so be it.
						-- John --

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