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From: rcw@qetzal.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A different View of the value of OS/2 - it's better than UNIX
Message-ID: <199@qetzal.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 13-Sep-87 15:54:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: qetzal.199
Posted: Sun Sep 13 15:54:22 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 15-Sep-87 01:32:28 EDT
References: <494@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <961@looking.UUCP>
Organization: Mentor Software Inc., Thornton, CO.
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Summary: RT best to date

In article <961@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
|    The biggest problem is the difficulty in administering and maintaining a
|    Unix system.  It is still orders of magnitude more difficult than the
|    "turn it on and run a program" simplicity of DOS.  Many of these problems

Much as I love to flame the IBM-RT, IBM has done a very good job
of hiding the boot sequence. You literally turn the box on, and
in a few minutes it says "login:". You don't have to sit through
fsck's POSSIBLE FILE SIZE error messages, or get panicky phone
calls from users. The diagnostic diskette idea is slick too. Avoids
the [it's a hardware problem - no it's a software problem] conflict
for the most part. 

I also like how the RT figures out what devices
are connected to it. With my AT clone, I have had to battle every
component ever purchased for it. With the RT, you just stick it 
in, and it figures it out for you. Configuration can be displayed
using the "devices" command.

The best of the best is the digitizing tablet. No switches! Back in
the bad old days, it always took the better part of half a day to
get any serial device to work, and always had to break out the black box.
Not so with the RT. Just plug it in, and away it goes. 

| The alternative to this is that the 386 suffers the fate of the 286 -- simply
| being used as a fast version of its predecessor.  I hope we don't see this.
Amen!
-- 
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