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From: croft@csusac.csus.edu (Steve Croft)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: DOS and UNIX (again)
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.153425.29532@csusac.csus.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 91 15:34:25 GMT
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Organization: California State University, Sacramento
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 Jim Giles writes:
>Really?  I've been looking all over for such things.  The only ones I've
>found are migrants _from_ MS-DOS.  Usually they run slower than their
>PC counterparts.

Where do you get your information?  I have seen three ports to UNIX from DOS,
and they *fly*!  This includes 1-2-3, WordPerfect, and AutoCAD (all on
Sun SPARCStations).  About 2-3 times as fast (even more with AutoCAD).
I can remember using PageMaker on DOS and thing was very slow!  I have
not had that problem with FrameMaker on Sun.

>The problem was, in order to port to UNIX they rewrote in C.
Ow!  You open up a whole new can of worms here!  The ole "if it's not in
assembly language, it *must* be slower" attitude...  jeez!

Steve