Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!xylogics!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!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: 18 Jul 90 13:28:55 GMT References: <3126@rsiatl.UUCP> <783@digi.lonestar.org> <62@maxx.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 28 In article <62@maxx.UUCP> tyager@maxx.UUCP (Tom Yager) writes: > Some of the anonymous FTP sites out there are running on DOS systems. Yes, > you have to give them over to it. But how else could you set up such an > arrangement for around $1000? I guess it depends on whether such an arrangement is considered adequate. Even if just a pure server is what you want, the disk drives are going to be the dominant cost, so why not spring for an extra grand or so and get a compute server as well? > Some vendors do this better than others, but the best of the > LANS bring to bear all of the power of a UNIX network except remote-execution > capability. And multiuser protection, and soft recovery from program failures, and... > > > 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. > Using your example, I can also run OS/2 on that same Amiga with a 286 > Bridgecard. Does that make it as "portable" as the others? You missed the point... none of them is portable. They are all proprietary operating systems running on a single CPU family. When you can run OS/2 on everything from a PC/XT to a Cray come tell me. Right now it fails at both ends. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.