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From: tholen@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (David Tholen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Microsoft And Friends
Message-ID: <10232@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: 9 Nov 90 06:11:20 GMT
References: <4624@gara.une.oz.au>
Organization: University of Hawaii
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In article <4624@gara.une.oz.au>, rjacobs@gara.une.oz.au ( ABRI) writes:
 
> virtually ignored. As a multi-tasking operating system Unix on the PC is
> a better program and at a more evolved stage than OS/2. There are
> even GUI's for Unix now, to make it more user-friendly. 

There was a time some years ago when FORTRAN was "at a more evolved stage"
than C, so I wouldn't use the current stage of a product's evolution as an
argument.  Also, whether UNIX on a PC is a "better program" than OS/2 is an
entirely subjective matter, one that's been debated here to a great extent
(and it's not my intent to restart the debate) with no clear-cut conclusion.
Both operating systems have certain points in their favor.  Only time will
tell if the OS/2 versus UNIX comparison goes the same way as the C versus
FORTRAN comparison.