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Subject: Re: A different View of the value of OS/2 - it's better than UN
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Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 13:02:02 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 16 13:02:02 1987
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I found Phillip Burton's discussion of U*x and its failure to establish
itself to be cogent and thought-provoking.  A couple of points:

I thought the late lamented ATT UNIX PC did a lot to deal with the
problems of the computerphobic user.  Burton might reply, yes, but not
enough, U*x is just *too* complicated, and he might be right.  Anyway,
we'll never know, since this machine was never properly marketted or
supported.

A lot of people are not convinced that the OS/2 "DOS Box" can ever work,
due to the large amount of "poorly behaved" MS-DOS software it would have
to run.  The merits of OS/2 should probably be considered independent of its
ability to run PC software.

The thought of a 20 meg disk with no directory hierarchy is pretty frightening.