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From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
Subject: Re: Open Letter to an MS-DOS User
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.142936.1302@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1991 14:29:36 GMT

In article <91MAR30.004457@ducvax.auburn.edu> wadew@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
>As for your comment about "I wanted to run Unix, not something called A/Ux," to
>my knowledge A/Ux IS standard Unix with a few enhancements.  I don't think 
>there's any more difference in A/Ux and Unix than you would find between Unix
>on an MS-DOS and a Sun.

The deplorable experience that our department has had is that not every
Unix is alike.  Hybrids like A/Ux and AIX (and, our favorite, Domain/OS)
are trouble, unless you don't care about spending half your life porting
software and then still having trouble because Unix itself wasn't ported/cloned
properly in the first place.

				Marc R. Roussel
                                mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca