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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: COHERENT?
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Date: 16 Jun 90 05:16:02 GMT
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darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>[Attribution screwed up. I don't know who said following line]
>>>What does this guy expect for a hundred bucks?
>
>In article <3128@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
>>Ask that question in the MS-DOS environment and you can get quite a lot...such
>>as a full C compiler.  Hell, I paid under $70 for Turbo C 1.5 a couple of
>>years back.
>>I don't know why people seem to botch it up in the Unix environment.
>
>You mean a multi-tasking OS ***PLUS*** a compiler for a hundred bucks is
>"botched up" when compared to a compiler alone for $70 a couple of years
>ago?  What exactly are you comparing?
>
>Try to keep up with the rest of us will ya.

It's botched up in terms of expectations.  And trying to get answers from MWC
is worse than trying to get answers from Lotus and Novell combined on when
they'll have an OS comparable to Xenix 286/386.
 
     // JCA

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