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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A different View of the value of OS/2 - it's better than UNIX
Message-ID: <1394@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 01:35:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: van-bc.1394
Posted: Fri Sep 25 01:35:19 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 06:19:17 EDT
References: <494@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <961@looking.UUCP> <498@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <1344@van-bc.UUCP> <13212@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
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In article <13212@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@bucsb.bu.edu writes:
>In article <1344@van-bc.UUCP> sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
>>In article <498@parcvax.Xerox.COM> burton@parcvax.xerox.com.UUCP (Philip M. Burton) writes:
>>[...] I cringe anytime I have to go near an MS-DOS system.
>>It's really not very easy to setup. I mean really, auto-exec what?? For me
>>to bring 3.2 MS-DOS on our recently installed 386 would take me longer than
>>it did to put unix on it (about 1hr from a standing start). 
>
>It shouldn't take very long to bring up anything but the most complex
>DOS system.  I can bring up just about any DOS system in less than an
>hour and usually in a few minutes, even with multiple hard drives.
>UNIX is harder to bring up, but (again) it's more complex.

My point is (was) that I've brought Unix on numerous small boxes and don't
have any trouble doing so. I've had my learning curve and know basically
what to do. 

On the other hand I've never used MS-DOS on a hard disk (I'll admit to 1.1
on floppies), at least not for anything other than editing a few files. So
if I had to bring up an MS-DOS system I wouldn't know where to begin. Even
the few times I've just tried to make a simple floppy based MS-DOS system I
end up extremely frustrated from the cruddy tools and documentation. 

The first time you bring up any system its hard, Unix *is* probably harder.
But once you learn either of them they arn't that hard to work with.
Although going from a powerful system like Unix to MS-DOS can be frustrating
due to the lack of the same tools.


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