Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Interactive and me - An open letter to ISC. Message-ID: Date: 16 Jul 90 21:36:53 GMT References: <3126@rsiatl.UUCP> <783@digi.lonestar.org> <55@maxx.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 22 In article <55@maxx.UUCP> tyager@maxx.UUCP (Tom Yager) writes: > DOS systems run just dandy on networks Depends on what you mean by "just dandy". Every time I have to interact with folks using a DOS network I'm frustrated by the things they *can't* do, that I just expect to be able to do. > --that's one of the things that keeps > the wind in DOS's sails (sales?). Both DOS and OS/2 can operate in peer > network configurations, sharing printers, disks, modems, CD-ROMS...you name > it. Such as remotely accessing a DOS machine's files without having to turn that machine into a dedicated server. Sure, you can ALL access the file server... but you can't get to each other's local files. > > No, it should be OS/2 versus AmigaOS, Microsoft Windows, and Mac System 7. > Can I run AmigaOS or Mac System 7 on other vendors' hardware? Since OS/2 is restricted to one hardware platform this is pretty much irrelevant, but you can run Windows, GEM, and Mac/OS on an Amiga. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.