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From: mlm@homxc.UUCP (M.MILLIMAN)
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Subject: Re: Which 80386 system to buy?
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Date: Sun, 13-Sep-87 17:27:01 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 13 17:27:01 1987
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> AT&T (Olivetti?) did a better job of engineering this time around. I've lost
> track of the things that wouldn't quite work on AT&Ts.
> 
> I thought the 6300+ would run DOS and/or Unix?

I have used my AT&T PC6300 for over two years running MS-DOS applications
and various versions of MS-DOS and have not encountered any in compatibility
problems with commercial software.  I use Mosaic's Twin, MSC 4.0, MS-Word
3.0, MASM 3.0, MS-Pascal, MS-FORTRAN, Sidekick, etc. and all of these
products work fine.  MS-Word takes advantage of the higher resolution screen
of the 6300.  Micro-Emacs works like a gem.  I have had some difficulty with
a couple PD programs but most work on the 6300 or have specific versions for
this machine.  If you have a list of incompatible programs I would like to
see it so I can avoid them.

I chose this machine for my personal use over the wide variety of other
machines.  My employer had no influence in my decision.

Yes, I too am curious about the 6386 WGS.  I have a marketing leaflet about
it and it sounds interesting.  If someone gets one of these machines, I 
would like to hear how it performs.

Mark L. Milliman	      UUCP:  {ihnp4,rutgers,thumper}!hocad!mlm
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