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Subject: UNIX on an IBM PC? How "good" is it?
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Date: Sat, 30-Jun-84 11:04:28 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 30 11:04:28 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 2-Jul-84 00:43:22 EDT
Organization: John Antypas @ UCSD
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  I have been considering purchasing many new computers.  I would
never have considered an IBM, but the price of hard disks for an IBM I
am tempted to go for it.  I have seen a certain ad in Byte advertising
a 10 megabyte hard disk for the IBM complete with a version of UNIS
(?) on it. (or was it Uniplus)   How good can this system really be?
What did they leave out of Unix (I realize networking software isn't
needed, but do they at least include nroff, vi and the C, Pascal, and
f77 compilers with the needed attatchments?  How good can this system
really be.  (I have an Apple so even the 8086 seems to be more
powerful than a 6502 or a Z80.

All comments/suggestions welcome.



					John Antypas
					UC San Diego

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