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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: 15 Mar 90 20:06:34 GMT
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In article <1990Mar15.152746.21025@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> srg@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Steven R Gerber) writes:
|>Be serious. I use both DOS and Unix daily and I have a much better
|>history mechanism on DOS than I do on Unix.
|	Did you mean you're using an additional utility (4DOS, stack, etc.)?
|	If you mean the regular F3 etc., you gotta be kidding!

Yes, I have some additional utilities on DOS. I do on Unix too,
things like readnews, emacs, ksh, etc.

|>I have job control and backgrounding too. You don't HAVE to have Unix
|>to do this.
|	True.  You can kludge this (Windows, DesqView, etc.).
|	But FACE IT: MS-DOS just plain ain't got it.

I refuse to accept comparisons of DOS without any utilities unless
you also look at Unix without utilities like csh, X, etc.

|	I don't want to do back-flips to code.  BTW, have you every programmed
|	for Windows?  It's a real pain-in-the-ass and the SDK is expensive.

Have you ever programmed for X?

Are you saying Unix is not expensive?

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