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From: mike@cimcor.UUCP (Michael Grenier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A different View of the value of OS/2 - it's better than Unix
Message-ID: <476@cimcor.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 21:06:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: cimcor.476
Posted: Wed Sep 23 21:06:10 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 17:57:16 EDT
References: <494@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <961@looking.UUCP> <498@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <230@hobbes.UUCP>
Organization: Grenier & friends, Forest Lake, MN
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Summary: not really...

In article <230@hobbes.UUCP>, root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher) writes:
> +---- lots of DOS/Unix "talk" deleted ----+
> 
> The biggest difference I've found in the DOS -vs- Unix war is that I can set
> up a development environment (WP, C, debugging...) on a 10Mb hard disk under
> DOS and still have about 8 Meg free for my programs.  A similarly configured
> Unix system wouldn't even fit on 10Mb!  Why should Joe Dosuser bother
> with "disk hog" Unix?

Actually, a simialarly configured Unix will fit in the space you
mention - My Microport boot disk provides most or all of the things
that DOS does. Sure its single user mode, and doesn't have the print
spoolers, and the uucp communications, etc - but neither does DOS!
{ I don't consider PRINT under dos much of a spooler}. One usually
doesn't configure UNIX to run in that small of space because UNIX
gives you so much more that its WORTH  making space for it and
most people do.

Concerning John's other claim in his article about the need for 
UNIX system administration and cleaning up log files - again
the above argument I make holds : If you don't install mail, UUCP,
spoolers, etc like DOS then you don't have to maintain them either.

    -Mike
    {ihnp4,rutgers,amdahl}!meccts!cimcor!mike