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From: beattie@netxcom.UUCP (Brian Beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS vs UNIX: the reality
Message-ID: <278@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Jan-87 16:39:39 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 23 16:39:39 1987
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In article <670@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes:
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>I didn't have the heart to post this one to any of the "UNIX.wizards" type
>newsgroups.  I spoke to a gentleman from Unisoft at the UNIFORUM at the D.C.
>convention center today and asked him concerning the 180 or so companies 
>which Unisoft used to advertise ran their (Unisoft's) UNIX port three or
>four years ago, how many were left alive today. His answer:  "About 26".
>Sobering thought, isn't it.
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>Ted Holden,
>IMS
I would claim this has more to do with the quality of the Unisoft port
rather than UNIX.  Unisoft is only one of many ports of UNIX and System III
is very much out of date.  Having seen Unisoft ports before I would
use MSDOS before Unisoft.

I'll take a real UNIX or if I have to XENIX.


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