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From: randy@chinet.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A different View of the value of OS/2 - it's better than UNIX(TM)
Message-ID: <1620@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 17:54:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: chinet.1620
Posted: Wed Sep 23 17:54:29 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 09:51:20 EDT
References: <494@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <961@looking.UUCP> <498@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <17@lzaz.ATT.COM> <153@splut.UUCP>
Reply-To: randy@chinet.UUCP (Randy Suess)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <153@splut.UUCP> jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) writes:
>In article <17@lzaz.ATT.COM>, bds@lzaz.ATT.COM (BRUCE SZABLAK) writes:
>> UNIX(TM) has the demonstrated ability of running in a variety of hardware
>> environments: micro to mainframe. 
>
>Except for one minor detail:
>
>Un*x is NOT the portable solution everyone claims it is. If it were, we
>wouldn't have all these discussions about "package X wants to run on System
>V, can someone help me to get it going on 4.3BSD?" I've had little success
>taking software off the net and making it go.

	Hmmm..  Let's see..  I have this fairly large, integrated software
	package, let's call it news 2.11.  I, personally, have access to:
	VAX 8600 running SySV2, 3b2, 3b1, AT running XENIX, Microport,
	Pyramid 90x running 4.2bsd and SysV, Microvax II running ULTRIX.
	I typed "make" on all of them, and was running a complicated
	communications system in no time.

		I have LOTUS 123 running on my AT.  Now, how bout you take
		the source and get that running as fast (or within a couple
		of magnitudes of fast) on my Mac.

	Methinks UN*X has *something* going for it..

-- 
that's the biz, sweetheart.....
Randy Suess
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