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From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Unix
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Date: 14 Mar 90 19:58:48 GMT
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In article <7989@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> velasco@beowulf.UCSD.EDU (Gabriel Velasco) writes:
|It's true that one of the things that has made UNIX so popular is the way that
|it handles multiple users, but this is not the only thing.  History mechanisms,

Be serious. I use both DOS and Unix daily and I have a much better
history mechanism on DOS than I do on Unix.

|job control with backgrounding, programming interface, are just a few more

I have job control and backgrounding too. You don't HAVE to have Unix
to do this.


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