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From: doug@ozdaltx.UUCP (Doug Matlock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: X-Windows on PC's
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Date: 13 Jul 90 14:30:54 GMT
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In article <1990Jul12.221219.1621@agate.berkeley.edu>, ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
> The only snag
> is who is going to buy it.  Does it make any sense to put something as
> complicated as X server and clients running under extended DOS, when
> the same machine could run UNIX?

Perhaps to protect an investment in DOS software, so that one can slowly
make a transition from DOS based products to UNIX based.  The big investment
most corporations have in software is the custom stuff, not the "off-the-
shelf" stuff.  

-- 
Doug.

"If you want Peace, work for Justice."