Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!lanl!jlg
From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: How wrong is MS-DOS? (or: What is the definition of obsolete)
Message-ID: <11299@lanl.gov>
Date: 13 Jan 91 19:52:37 GMT
References: <3130@canisius.UUCP>
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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From article <3130@canisius.UUCP>, by pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov):
>> [... spell, etc. vs. an integrated text editor ...]
>    Funny, but none of the MS-DOS machines we have here came with anything that
>    looks like what you describe.  Didn't even come with anything as useless as
>    "ispell", in fact.... 

Thank goodness.  The price of MS-DOS is much lower, in part, because
of the lack of all this bundled software.  Bundled software is _not_
free (as people keep telling me over email).  I think it's much better
to pay $60 for MS-DOS and $200 for good wordprocessing software than
to pay $500 for UNIX and get vi, eqn, tbl, ..., and troff bundled in.
The UNIX purchase still leaves me with the need to buy some good word
processing software - none of the bundled stuff qualifies in this category.

J. Giles