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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Interactive and me - An open letter to ISC.
Message-ID: <1990Jul14.032902.17144@virtech.uucp>
Date: 14 Jul 90 03:29:02 GMT
References: <3126@rsiatl.UUCP> <783@digi.lonestar.org>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <783@digi.lonestar.org> cfoughty@digi.lonestar.org (Cy Foughty) writes:
>shouldn't be "OS/2 vs. Unix". OS/2 is meant for general business and
>Unix for scientific and acadamic. The only reason that Unix ever 
>started becoming popular in general business is that it offered low
>cost multi-tasking and networking. It did not offer user friendly-ness.

No. Unix became popular in business because it provided a non-proprietary
multi-USER system.  Until very recently (like the last 3 or so years) the
only single user multi-tasking unix boxes were the workstations (like 
Suns, appollos, etc).  Note that I am not implying that these boxes
do not also provide a multi-user solution, just saying that 4 or 5 years
ago if you found a business unix system it was almost surely a 
multi-user system.

Unix's big calling is that it provides a "compatible" interface over a
wide variety of hardware from pc's to mainframes.  OS/2 can't compare
in that regard.

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