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From: munish@ms.uky.edu (Munish Mehra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: BEYOND DOS ? WHAT NEXT !
Message-ID: <13110@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 2 Nov 89 15:09:37 GMT
Reply-To: munish@ms.uky.edu (Munish Mehra)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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Here are my experiences with alternate PC operating systems.
I would like people to respond with their opinions and experiences.

I recently installed Unix (Microport) on a 20 MHz (Non Caching) Compaq
386 portable. It has a 100 MB 28 ms HardDisk and 3 MB of 80 ns RAM.
It was ridiculously SLOW. ls takes 5 to 10 seconds. hello world in C
took over half a minute to compile (without errors), on introducing an
error it took around a minute before giving the error message.
I know this was not the best combination of flavour of Unix and
operating system, but my guess is that even a 25 MHz Caching 386 with
enough RAM and a 16.5 ms ESDI wouldn't be as fast as DOS.

I  have experimented with VM386 and Microsoft Windows and find several
of my favourite DOS applications "freeze" (eg SAS, Turbo C).

Has anyone experimented with PC-MOS 386, OS/2, Other Unix's.

DOS is nice but what does one do if one needs multitasking, or
multiple users and doesn't wan't to compromise the speed that one
has enjoyed under DOS.

Munish Mehra        ARPA:   munish@ms.uky.edu  BITNET: munish@ukma.BITNET
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"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless."

                          Geoffrey James, The Tao of Programming.