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From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: my antique pc
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Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 02:24:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  8 02:24:00 1986
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!aglew    Mar  8 01:24:00 1986


>br@wucs.UUCP writes about hardware/software upgrades to a PC that will make
>a unix hack happy.

At my last job I spent some time evaluating multitasking OSes for the PC.
We eventually settled on a completely proprietary multitasking executive,
AMS from Kadak, not because of its UNIX-like features, but because they
sold complete source at a very reasonable price.

Among UNIXes we looked at Coherent and Venix. Didn't like either much,
mainly because of licensing costs, but also because they were just too
darned slow.

The most impressive of the reasonably tolerable operating systems was QNX
from Quantum Software in Ottawa: small, ran in everything from 64K one 
drive to lovely big systems, a reasonable shell with multiple screens
that you can flip between for different sessions (not quite as good as
windows, but alright), and fairly easy to code for - although most of
the UNIX commands and functions have changed name.

Also had the nice feature of being able to run MSDOS as a sub process,
but how much of MSDOS I don't know.