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From: berger@datacube.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM's new System 2 Personal Compute
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Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 14:09:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  7 14:09:00 1987
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Nf-From: datacube.UUCP!berger    Apr  7 14:09:00 1987


Who needs another propriatary incompatable hard to use software
environment.

Yeah, Unix/Xenix/Microport whatever with DOS-Merge and X-Windows!

That's a winning combination and it gets people out of the Rut of
being stuck with 80xx86 cpu's. Software written for the above (sans DOS)
could easily be ported to Sun's, Apollo's and Vaxen. Common window system
common system interface.  Totally portable* at the C source level!

It would be a wonderfully unified environment to create product for,
and its not dominated by one company, yet is even vaster a marketplace
than just DOS.

* Yes I know there is no such thing as totally portable, but it would be
VERY portable!
				Bob Berger 

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