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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 386 machines are workstations?
Message-ID: <2263@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 29 May 90 14:16:04 GMT
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In article <639@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ> ian@sibyl.OZ (Ian Dall) writes:

|                                           If x86 machines had any
| significant *advantages* I might have a harder decision, but if things
| are much of a muchness I will got for elegance everytime. People that
| design elegantly deserve encouragement!

  In the real world there is a major advantage: MS-DOS software can be
run. And ecconomics cares not one whit for o/s elegance, there is a lot
of good software for MS-DOS, and it cost s less than UNIX software
(which may be hurting the growth of UNIX).

  And for people who want to develop in a reasonable environment and
then have software that runs in MS-DOS where the unit sales are, this
becomes highly important.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
            "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me