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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft And Friends
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Date: 15 Nov 90 19:13:12 GMT
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In article <1990Nov11.174012.9566@gupta.portal.com> few@gupta.portal.com (Frank Whaley) writes:
|In article <1990Nov9.193424.1196@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
|>Actually, OS/2 has more sophisticated technology than Unix.
|
|I tried long and hard to stay out of this, but I've heard this argument
|too many times without a single line of proof.  Can anyone name even
|one example of 'more sophisticated technology' available in OS/2 that
|is not available in at least one flavor of Unix?

Here's another aspect: price. How much would you have to pay to
get Unix with a GUI? I see Interactive advertising X Windows for
$695, if I understand their ad correctly. Is this in addition
to Unix? Ouch. And what kind of applications can you get for it?
At what price?

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