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From: eddjp@althea.UUCP (Dewey Paciaffi)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Porting C News to MS-DOS?
Message-ID: <214@althea.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 89 20:47:01 GMT
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Reply-To: eddjp@althea.UUCP (Dewey Paciaffi)
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 (Richard Todd) writes:
>It took me 3-4 *hours* to get C News running on my Unix box, and most of that
>was waiting for various makes to complete.  The advantage of having a real
>computer instead of a PC cannot be overstated, not only in the time involved
>but in the hassle.  As Peter da Silva points out, even an Amiga would be
>an improvement; at least the Amiga has a multitasking OS.  

Let us not confuse PC's with DOS. At this very moment, I'm on my "PC", along
with 5 other users, who are running Oracle and other "real" software under
Xenix, while I play with the news.

This old 20MHz 386 runs RINGS around the "Real Computers" I worked on
5 years ago ( 32-bit Minis ).

I for one would love to see a netnews system for DOS. I just can't afford
enough hardware for my home set-up :-(.

And another thing, there is a Multi-tasking operating system for the PC,
and we like to call it UN*X.

Dewey Paciaffi