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From: vojta@powdermilk.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Microsoft And Friends
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Date: 10 Nov 90 06:09:48 GMT
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In article <10232@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> tholen@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (David Tholen) writes:
>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 ...
Ditto for FORTRAN vs. PL/1.

>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.

Then why do they IGNORE Unix, instead of giving OS/2 and Unix
even-handed treatment?  They have had a multipart series on OS/2, but
has PC Magazine had even _one_ article solely devoted to Unix?  Guess
they're afraid of losing subscribers to UnixWorld...

--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu