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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: How wrong is MS-DOS? (or: What is the definition of obsolete)
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.234154.11819@amd.com>
Date: 15 Jan 91 23:41:54 GMT
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In article <11143@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
|I've heard that there's a new UNIX for PC's which just contains a
|pcc-type compiler, a bourne shell clone, a half dozen utilities, and
|UNIX itself of course - for $99.  For this kind of price, I may buy
|a copy, just to play with.

This product is definitely worth what you pay for it, and not a penny
more. All code is limited to 64 Kbytes. A toy, does even less than Minix.
Unix continues to be much, much more expensive than DOS.

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