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From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: NEW USER
Message-ID: <1991Jun9.175218.756@unixland.natick.ma.us>
Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
References: <1991Jun6.041604.7361@ncep1.uucp>
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 91 17:52:18 GMT

In article <1991Jun6.041604.7361@ncep1.uucp> n931a@pnet16.cts.com (Et1 Ryan) writes:
>        Having purchased COHERENT only about a week ago, and experienced
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>        I ask this out of desperation as I am still within my 60 day return
>privledge window, and just can't see the advantages of this program over a
>MSDOS multitasking system.  Perhaps some advice on the easiest way to learn

I keep seeing questions like this, both here and on various
Fidonet conferences.  The answer is very simple.  DOS is a SINGLE-USER
operating systeem.  Regardless of what "multi-tasking" layers you add
to DOS (such as DESQview, Windows, etc), DOS is STILL a SINGLE-USER 
OS.    UNIX, on the other hand, is a MULTI-USER Operating System.  If
you want to have multiple users running various applications on a machine
simultaneously, then UNIX is the way to go.

There are cases where UNIX can help in a single-user environment -- but
its multi-user capabilities are what make it stand out.





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