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From: biggity@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Jon Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM's plan for OS/2 and you
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Date: 20 Oct 89 03:28:28 GMT
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ander@pawl.rpi.edu (Michael R. Primm) writes:
>Just think, to get a UN*X platform with a nice windowed interface (X11) 
>running at any reasonable performance level, 8 Megabytes is the 
>suggested minimum (as someone who has run X11R3 on a system with 8 MB, 
>I feel even this may be somewhat light)...and think what you'd pay for
>just the operating system license, the hard disk space, and so forth.
>
>                                                    --Mike Primm
>
>"I have seen the enemy, and it is tunnel-vision"

     Isn't that about the same amount of memory required for OfficeVision???
I don't think that either or these systems is a widespread viable choice.
   
     Seems to me that both systems, OS/2 and Unix are about the same in size,
(boht in hard disk space, memory required), and boht offer about the same
amount of functionality with the exception that Unix supports terminals.
        
        Damned if you do, and if you don't.....

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