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From: jwohl@csserv2.ic.sunysb.edu (Jeremy Wohl)
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Subject: Re: Argosoft Unix for OS/2
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Date: 9 Feb 91 22:34:15 GMT
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In article <5418@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> lairdkb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
>I've been wanting to investigate this since I saw it.  This seems like a good
>way to start.
>
>The following excerpt  is from the November 1990 (Vol. 1, No. 3) OS/2 and
>Windows Magazine.  The next and most recent issue, December/January, did not
>contain this ad.
>--------
>
>[ad deleted]
>
>[...]
>I didn't spend all this time typing for any reason other than to get some
>opinions (and maybe help out some other people like me).
>
>
>I have some suspicion that this product may be vaporware.  The add was full-
>page, but looked like it was set with simple NROFF.  It was in the November
>issue (which I think came out in November), yet it stated that the offer
>(of $499) only lasted until November 1.  Also, why hasn't anyone reviewed it?
>It seems like a potentially wonderful product.
>
>I think that a port of UNIX to OS/2 is reasonable.  HPFS should certainly make
>it easier than trying to kludge the DOS FAT.  Also, OS/2 is multitasking to
>start with.
>
>Any opinions/experiences?
>
>Well, I'm interested and will investigate also.

I thought this was a great product when I saw the ad (several months earlier,
actually), although it *doesn't* seem to provide a full BSD 4.3 distribution.
Also, the price is on the expensive side (especially after the special offer
was over.)  Not including development tools was a mistake.  However, if you
receive Dr. Dobbs, recently there has been a series on 386BSD.  [If not,
386BSD is a Berkely project to port BSD 4.3 to the 386 without any AT&T
code.  Should be done soon, if not yet.]  Several boot programs are
available to allow multiple booting OSs on the hard drive.  Doesn't work
simultaneously, but its free (less distribution fees)!

-- 
Jeremy Wohl / wohl@max.physics.sunysb.edu / jwohl@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu