Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!arc!arc!steve From: steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Microsoft And Friends Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 90 22:35:58 GMT References: <4624@gara.une.oz.au> <1990Nov9.193424.1196@amd.com> <1990Nov11.174012.9566@gupta.portal.com> <1990Nov15.191312.13301@amd.com> Sender: @advansoft.com Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: phil@brahms.amd.com's message of Thu, 15 Nov 90 19:13:12 GMT In article <1990Nov15.191312.13301@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes: 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? Well, we paid exactly nothing for the MIT X distribution plus the stuff that's been posted to comp.sources.x. That's 280MB of SOURCE CODE for 221 applications (plus many we haven't built), the server, the libraries, several different toolkits, at least two application builders, and so on. And that's not even counting emacs and TeX, which work just fine with X. Of course, if you're willing to *pay* for applications, there's almost no limit to what you can get. Most major PC applications are available on Unix, plus some others. Of course, they generally cost more because the vendors assume that if you have Unix you probably have multiple users on a network. -- \ --Steve Savitzky-- \ ADVANsoft Research Corp \ REAL hackers use an AXE! \ \ steve@advansoft.COM \ 4301 Great America Pkwy \ #include \ \ arc!steve@apple.COM \ Santa Clara, CA 95954 \ 408-727-3357 \ \__ steve@arc.UUCP _________________________________________________________